cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

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    1 day ago

    My brother in arms, given Linux’s desktop market share (which is where KDE is used), Linux is the also-ran in your list. For the point I have made, however, market share is not really relevant. Unices don’t stop becoming Unix just because of how many people use them.

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      20 hours ago

      The point is, nobody gives a shit about Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. anymore and your argument is stupid.

      Every Unix or Unix-like OS that matters in 2025 is either switching from X11 to Wayland or never used X11 to begin with.

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        9 hours ago

        “Nobody”. I see. Please try to leave your bubble every now and then. There are quite a few people (including me) who still need those systems, and it is rather disappointing to see that they are left behind without a good reason.

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          35 minutes ago

          It’s proprietary shit. If it’s being left behind, blame the megacorp that makes it, not Linux devs.

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            26 minutes ago

            Solaris (“illumos”) is not proprietary anymore. Actually, it is the only free SysV UNIX in the world.