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Fedora 43 to Remove GNOME X11 Support

Fedora 43 may drop GNOME X11 under a new proposal that aligns with upstream efforts to focus entirely on Wayland from now on.

KDE has separated KWin X11 and KWin Wayland. Wayland takes priority, but X11 remains maintained until Plasma 7.

New explicit sync support has been merged into wlroots, a Wayland compositor library, promising enhanced graphics handling to all Sway users.

Hyprland tiling Wayland compositor has been accepted into Debian and is now part of its unstable repositories.

Hyprland has completed its move off of wlroots and is now a fully independent Wayland compositor.

It's final! Fedora moves to Wayland-only GNOME, dropping X11 from its media to enhance user experience.

Miracle-WM 0.3, a new Wayland compositor based on Ubuntu’s MIR, was released with window animations, workspace switching, and improved bug fixes.

The NVIDIA 555.58 video driver with explicit sync support is officially released, promising a new era in the Wayland experience for Linux users.

A proposal has been made for the upcoming Fedora 41, the Anaconda installer, to become a native Wayland app, dropping X11 dependencies.

Wayland 1.23 display server protocol released, featuring improved debugging aids, new enum-header modes, and OpenBSD support.