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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 27 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Should be wayland by default, finally.

The wayland transition is almost over. JFC it took forever.

All that's left is steam itself, wine/proton, and i'd say we're basically done.

[–] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Xfce is still wholly in xorg territory.

Iirc there's work being done for Wayland support, but last I checked, it's not nearly far enough along.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)
  1. xfce is really not an important project IMHO, it's an interface from the 00's that doesn't have a clear usecase to me at all. It's a strictly worse version of KDE in my eyes. The only reason to use it seems to be if you're already used to it and don't want to have to change anything.
  2. they're actually almost completely done: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

so, i don't think it'd matter if it were true, and it's also false.

[–] apostrofail@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

an interface from the ’00s*

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