Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad
7 hours ago
- The author ported X11 and Wayland desktops (GNOME, KDE) to run natively on jailbroken iPads.
- The project uses Metal/IOSurface for hardware-accelerated display, ANGLE-on-Metal for GPU acceleration, and supports X11, Xwayland, GTK, Qt, KWin, and Plasma.
- LLMs like Claude were instrumental in troubleshooting and building the system, handling tasks like cross-compilation and crash analysis.
- The author provides a deb repository for jailbroken devices to install the software, but notes jailbreaking is limited to older iOS versions and devices.