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GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5
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X11 versus Wayland isn't some kind of holy war; Wayland was specifically designed as a successor protocol to the largely cobbled-together X and is objectively superior to it in most ways outside of accessibility.
It's so superior that they finally added color in 2024!
Unless I'm mistaken, X has never had proper color management support in the first place.
Right, as I've and many people here said, wayland is still not FULLY completed for AVERAGE user and said average user is not going to code patches, he just going to walk away from wayland and from Linux, and this is pushing the year of desktop Linux farther and farther from us
When is the last time you tried a Wayland DE? I can't speak to them all, but Plasma for one has been in really good shape for basically everything a typical user might want to do with it for around a year now.