The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.
The team behind the KDE Plasma desktop announced it is going all-in on a Wayland future. The Plasma version 6.8, “which we expect will be sometime in early 2027,” will completely drop X11 support.
You don’t need to worry just yet. Plasma 6.5 appeared less than a month ago, and it’s currently at version 6.5.3. That means there are the entire 6.6 and 6.7 release sequences to get through, which will probably take most of 2026 and some of 2027.
Same for me. I’m still kinda new to Linux so I’m not an expert on the matter, but what I’m reading online is that it doesn’t work very well with Nvidia cards, which is what I use.
This is old news. Nvidia did have issues with wayland at first, but that was quickly fixed. Most of my machines have Nvidia graphics cards, and all of them run Wayland flawlessly. I suggest that you try it on your machine if you want to see how well it works in your case though, mileage may vary.
Alright. This Christmas holiday I’m gonna try to make the switch again. And it’s not bad for gaming either?
If you don’t have a preference, I recommend trying out Bazzite.
That’s an entirely different distro right? I’m finally starting to get things right with Arch so I’m not sure if I’m ready to jump ships quite yet, haha. But thanks for the advice! If Wayland messes with my system too much, I might just jump ships.
Yep, it is. It’s an idiot-proof gaming distro. It’s preconfigured for gaming and immutable. I believe it’s based on Fadora Atomic.
My daily driver is EndeavourOS and my Girlfriend’s PC is Bazzite, and I’m seriously jealous of how many things “just work” on her PC that I have to scrounge through steam forums and Arch Wiki to get working.
My 3090 works flawlessly
Yeah i swapped from win10 to Linux with my 3070 and its been nothing but a headache on wayland.
Some people in this thread are saying this isn’t true anymore so I might give it another go over the holidays. One thing I liked about Wayland was that I could have different resolutions for each of my two monitors. Something I can’t seem to get working on X11. Wish me luck!
Oh thats interesting. My three monitors are the same resolution so I never thought to even check if something like that was an issue.