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EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log
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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.
From the blog:
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.