The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has determined to approve a change in Fedora 43 that can see the GNOME desktop turn out to be Wayland-only. The proposal was posted to Fedora Pagure two weeks in the past and the FESCo voted to approve the change on Tuesday.

The choice will see customers on X11 moved to Wayland and X11 packages shall be taken out of the Fedora repositories. As a little bit of historical past, Fedora 25 was the primary model to be launched with Wayland because the default show server protocol and that got here out all the way in which again in November 2016 – 9 years in the past!

Since then, Canonical has additionally switched Ubuntu over to Wayland, so by now, it’s fairly a mature know-how that the majority works as customers count on. It presents extra trendy options and it’s safer than X11.

In line with Phoronix, the Fedora mission’s choice aligns with what’s occurring over on the GNOME mission. It’s anticipated that GNOME 50 will drop its help for X11 classes and it might even be moved ahead to GNOME 49 if there’s consensus.

Phoronix additionally factors out that the choice made by Fedora to take away X11 session help is not going to influence XWayland, which helps you to run X11 purchasers from throughout the GNOME Wayland session. This shall be welcome information to folks nonetheless working any apps that haven’t but been up to date to help GNOME Wayland.