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Kubuntu finally removes support for X11 in new installs

by bundie on 6/23/25, 12:17 AM with 17 comments

  • by DaSHacka on 6/23/25, 8:49 AM

    And so it begins; the forced migration to Wayland brought about from users not willingly switching to a half-baked solution from their existing working X11 environment.

  • by olgeni on 6/23/25, 6:55 PM

    We recently swapped RPIs with Windows mini-PCs due to xdotool disappearing, and whatever the alternative is called... segfaulting. Keep going like this.

  • by musicale on 6/24/25, 5:30 AM

    Does Wayland actually work reliably now? That would be a nice surprise.

  • by os2warpman on 6/23/25, 5:45 PM

    Hey Xorg, your code is like, the worst in the entire galaxy spanning the entire history of mankind will you let contributors fix it?

    "No" -Xorg

    Hey Xorg, it's 2025 and people have really powerful GPUs so fancy-smanchy effects can be implemented that use like 1% of a GPU's horsepower but would have been considered impossible fantasy beyond the power of every supercomputer in the world combined when you were written, can you implement something to handle stuff like that?

    "No" -Xorg

    Hey Xorg, your code is so insecure that any instance of it should be considered a critical vulnerability of the highest severity level will you let more than the dozen or so people you have work on it?

    "No" -Xorg

    Hey Xorg why do my windows get all jaggedy and messed up when I wiggle that around?

    "No, uh, I mean, that's called screen tearing and it's a feature" -Xorg

    Hey Xorg I have three monitors and I want to run them at different resolutions, refresh rates, and fractional scaling levels. Can I do tha..

    "What the hell kind of frame buffer do you have that lets you do that?" -Xorg

    Hey Xorg I was going to ask if I could do that without touching any config files or using the command line because I ain't got time for that. Wait. Frame buffer? Is this 1993? Are you developing on a single headed TurboGX-equipped Sun SparcStation running the SPARC port of Linux and you have absolutely no clue about either the state of the art or the march of progress?

    "Yes" -Xorg

    "Wait, why are people abandoning me?" -Xorg