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It is not true that X11 is gone. I use it. Many other people use it too.

Can you show where you got the impression that "X11 is gone"?

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X11 has been replaced by Wayland as the default on the vast majority of workstations. Servers wouldn't have it anyway.

It's "gone" for roughly 80% of the people using Linux on the desktop.

(It's often still installable, it's just no longer the default and has been marked as deprecated / unmaintained.)

I am using OpenBSD on an x86-64 desktop, and X is still very much the supported graphics environment.

That said, there is interest in Wayland in these circles.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2023-matthieu-wayla...

Supported by whom? Xorg, the server, no longer maintained. Also, OpenBSD users already a tiny fraction of users...if every single OpenBSD desktop switches to Linux and Wayland, not a single metric will change significantly.

OpenBSD also maintains OpenSSH, which has enormous market penetration.

Their ssh supports the -X and -Y options to run remote X applications.

Let me know when those go Wayland-specific and are able to encompass the new protocol.

Until then, get comfortable in a small and discardable minority.

The `-X` and `-Y` options were a mistake to integrate into `ssh(1)`, it makes an assumption that everybody uses an Athena/X11 type system. That said, you can combine waypipe with ssh to do the same thing (ie. `waypipe ssh` will give you the same effect as `ssh -X`).

Until those options are integrated into OpenSSH itself, Wayland remains in the minority.

I'm not sure this statement makes any sense.

> Their ssh supports the -X and -Y options to run remote X applications.

Cool, I remember using it in 2003 a few times. I highly doubt many people going to miss if those were gone. I would not be surprised if the majority of ssh server installations disable x11 session forwarding.

> Until then, get comfortable in a small and discardable minority.

Are you sure you're not confusing Wayland users with OpenBSD users?

OpenBSD maintains its own Xorg fork, called Xenocara.

I mean the discussion is about Linux though no and even if we extend the umbrella with the BSD folks still I don't think wayland drops below %80

I often read the advice that if something does not work on Linux, then switch from Wayland to X11.

Also, 20% is quite a big userbase. What you are saying is like saying that Firefox is "gone" because "percentage".

Trust me, X11 is not gone.

(written from a browser that runs in a VNC session that uses the X11 protocol under the hood)

X is deprecated. Its maintainers do not want to maintain it. They want you to use Wayland instead.

The major DEs have removed their X code paths, or will in the next year. The toolkits will follow suit. X is a dead end for new and non-legacy software.

It's a dead end that allows me to have HiDPI (aka a 4k display) on Ubuntu 24.04 and use the VMWare GUI and OnlyOffice.

Wayland was launched 18 years ago and it still can't handle mainstream apps in common scenarios.

Downvote all you want, I'm telling you what I see. I had to fall back to X...

"I often read the advice that if something does not work on Chrome in the US Govt, try IE6." - This was still true as of last year.

"Trust me, IE6 is not gone" - me

Are there hard numbers to back up the 80% thing? I don't know one way or the other, I'm just skeptical because I still have applications which don't work correctly under Wayland (Discord), and if I have such problems it wouldn't surprise me if others do too.

It's the default for most of the parent/child distros.

Wayland Only (default, installed):

* Fedora

* Ubuntu

* openSUSE

* Arch Linux

* Pop!_OS

Wayland (default)

* Debian

* SUSE

I use Discord on Wayland every day and have for at least 3 years. Both AMD 9060 and NVIDIA 4060 (and an AMD RX 580).

The distro you use can have a huge impact on your OOTB experience.

> * Arch Linux

Arch doesn't even install a kernel by default, in which possible way does it default to Wayland?

Oops! Sorry I was working in a sheet that had the variants listed and I must have shifted a cell!

Arch clearly doesn't have any "defaults" there. Manjaro is on X11.

SteamOS on Steam Deck does however use Wayland.

The waypipe toole comes quite close to X forwarding on Wayland. :-)

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