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EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log (blog.davidedmundson.co.uk)
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95% of Plasma 6.6 users use Wayland!

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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This is why I wish KDE still did LTS releases. Even though I use Wayland on my systems, I know it doesn't have feature parity with X11, and that some users may still need X11 for different reasons. If 95% of users are using Wayland, that means there's 5% that aren't, and 5% is not an insignificant number. I know there's other DEs that people can use if they need X11, but that's missing the point.

I really don't like this whole "march of progress, legacy can go to hell" mentality.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I mean Debian is LTS in that sense. You'll be able use the old version with X11 plasma for many many years

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm aware, but doesn't the lack of an LTS for KDE make things difficult for Debian's maintainers?

    EDIT: Wrote "thing" instead of "things" at first.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    From the blog:

    we can promise to listen and be aware. People's remaining pain point are and will be on our radar, so please take this time to communicate them.

    I don't hear this as "legacy can go to hell". They care about fixing remaining issues as much as possible.

    At some point, that's a better use of time than maintaining two display servers forever.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    The problem is that nobody enjoys porting bugfixes to old LTS releases and thus won't volunteer to do it.

    So, you either have to use some Enterprise OS that you pay a license to make people do it, or just miss out on bug fixes.

    KDE community stopped releasing LTS versions when they realized they were doing the latter.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I wonder how does this affect BSD users - I don't remember them having Wayland available

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