This is a great change in my opinion. Nobody wants to give support and effort into dying projects
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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I don't use GNOME or Wayland and also think the change makes sense.
It will mean even less attention is given to X11 as project, if that’s possible.
Gnome devs would no longer be interested in resolving any X11-related compatibility issues.
Yeah, that's fine. Wayland or whatever is going to be the future. I still use X11 as last time I checked (I try it out every year or so), a lot of my little tweaks were broken under Wayland. Someday I'll have to change, but that's OK.
- There are other submitted Merge Requests to that gnome-session GitLab repository that are 3 years old and are still open. This is only a proposal, and doesn't actually mean it's happening.
- If GNOME developers want to focus on expanding Wayland support instead of maintaining X11 support, surely that's their choice - they're mostly volunteers anyway, shouldn't they get to decide what they want to work on?
- If other developers still want X11 support, they can branch these session targets and X11 support code off into a separate package and handle maintaining it.
- X11 released in 1987. It had a great run.
Plus there's still Xwayland, Xorg will still be hanging on for the legacy apps.
On ProtonDB using X11 is like, an obvious tweak for a lot of games that aren't native to Linux 😓
That makes sense. The last time I used gnome on X it was a buggy experience