Yes, I think many Linux Distros will keep X11 support for many years, but then there is another issue: companies will follow the "mainstream" distros and will develop tools for Wayland.
This will keep this old-school distros out of the commercial game (pun intended), this is not a big issue if you only use open-source (wait, now even open-source tools are moving to Wayland, damn it!) Things like Wayland, Pulseaudio, Systemd, etc are becoming the Linux way, Linux is differentiating even more from the Unix world. For good or for bad, Linux is evolving... I'm not against the evolution, but I think it should have some compatibility layer to get the legacy software working, that is something that Microsoft did very well with Windows. BR, Alan On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM Michał Łyszczek <michal.lyszc...@bofc.pl> wrote: > On 2025-06-18 09:19:16, Nathan Hartman wrote: > > Currently I use it on Debian, but if Debian ever goes Wayland-only, I may > > have to switch to FreeBSD, in the hopes that they won't eliminate good > ol' > > X11!!!! > Well, there is always Gentoo, I think x11 will be there until x11 stops > being > maintained upstream ;) > > -- > .-----------------.-------------------.-----------------. > | Michal Lyszczek | Embedded C, Linux | .-. opensource | > | +48 727 564 419 | Software Engineer | oo| supporter | > | https://bofc.pl `----.--------------: /`'\ & | > | GPG FF1EBFE7E3A974B1 | Bits of Code |(\_;/) programer | > `----------------------^--------------^-----------------' >
