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[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] sxt@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Seems imminent https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14

Basically waiting on some implementations to get ready to merge if I'm reading it right.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wayland is essentially finally done, all the time and effort spent on the great transition will be remembered.

Now we move forward, past what x11 could ever do, and onto greatness. It only took like 17 years.

edit: I guess there's still accessibility work to be done, though.

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I knew 2025 is gonna be the year of the linux desktop