KDE Plasma 6.8 Planning to End X11 Support, 95% of Plasma 6.6 Users on Wayland
3 hours ago
- #Wayland
- #KDE Plasma
- #X11 transition
- KDE Plasma 6.8 will drop X11 support and go Wayland-exclusive, following the last X11-supported release, Plasma 6.7.
- Plans include cleaning up X11-specific code, while XWayland will still support legacy X11 apps and games.
- Moving to Wayland-only will enable more performance optimizations and other enhancements in Plasma.
- Currently, over 95% of KDE Plasma 6.6 users are already running on Wayland, with adoption increasing each release.