BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  KDE Plasma desktop vs. Ci
De:       Dr. What
Data:     Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:18:00 -0500
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-=> Nightfox wrote to All <=-

 Ni> I did some research on what Linux desktop environments look best on a
 Ni> 4K monitor.  I kept seeing KDE Plasma recommended, particularly with
 Ni> Wayland (which is a modern replacement for X11, which is designed to
 Ni> perform better and handle modern features better, such as fractional
 Ni> scaling).

Wayland has completely failed on all its goals.  It doesn't perform better than
X11 (but it doesn't perform worse either).  It doesn't offer nearly as much as
X11 so it's still not even close to feature-complete.

But the whole X11 topic has been the target of politics.  The group in charge
of X11 has a stated goal of killing it in favor of Wayland.  No problem there. 
Bring Wayland up, debug it and we're good. But they don't have the technical
knowledge to do so.  So Wayland growth has been stagnant.

In the meantime, the main developer for X11 worked it to XLibre then applied
all the updates that the X11 guys effectively blocked.  So now we have a better
X11, with all the features, completely compatible with X11 (as far as we know
right now) and is mostly tried-and-tested code, unlike Wayland.

Right now, if anyone is trying to push you to Wayland, take a good look as to
why first.


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