Leaflet@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoState of the Budgie: 2024 In Review and Goals for 2025buddiesofbudgie.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down12
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkState of the Budgie: 2024 In Review and Goals for 2025buddiesofbudgie.orgLeaflet@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squaretheshatterstone54@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up18·4 months agoLXDE is dead. LXQT is working on it, and I believe are already shipping some initial version: https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/ XFCE 4.20 introduced initial Wayland Support: https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734220800 Cinnamon has an experimental Wayland Session: https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-0-desktop-environment-arrives-with-initial-wayland-support Budgie, as per the article, will be Wayland-only from Budgie 10.10, to be released in Q1 2025. So I’d say the Wayland transition will be complete for all in either 2025 or 2026 at the latest.
LXDE is dead.
LXQT is working on it, and I believe are already shipping some initial version: https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/
XFCE 4.20 introduced initial Wayland Support: https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734220800
Cinnamon has an experimental Wayland Session: https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-0-desktop-environment-arrives-with-initial-wayland-support
Budgie, as per the article, will be Wayland-only from Budgie 10.10, to be released in Q1 2025.
So I’d say the Wayland transition will be complete for all in either 2025 or 2026 at the latest.