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X11 session support is being removed from the default install of Ubuntu with the upcoming 25.10 release. Gnome and KDE Plasma plan to remove X11 session support entirely within the next few years. Ready or not, Wayland is here.

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> X11 session support is being removed from the default install of Ubuntu with the upcoming 25.10 release.

Currently I can SSH from my MacBook/XQuartz onto an Ubuntu/Linux system and run xterm (or whatever). How does that work in the future?

apt install xorg

You cant that has never been a feature that wayland had planned but there are other tools that can do aimilar like waypipe or rdp or something like sunshine or something like VNC but there is nothing as a part of wayland and doesnt need to be wayland isnt complete reimplementation of X

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