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X11 also just "fucking works", and this is article is about a proposal to remove it from GNOME.

GNOME is the DE equivalent of North Korea. It's like hearing about North Korea contemplating removing the right to wear clothes and going, "I left Earth a decade ago, and this is a good reminder of why I haven't come back." :p

X11 will still be supported by sane (desktop) DEs for as long as Linux will still be in use, is my guess. (Just like window minimization and non-rounded corners and system trays and disabling composition and...)

Now apparently we need to migrate to pipewire.

I don't even think I'm on pipewire. Using Arch, you can run anything you want; no ones forcing you to do anything. ;D

X11 will still be supported by sane (desktop) DEs for as long as Linux will still be in use, is my guess. (Just like window minimization and non-rounded corners and system trays and disabling composition and...)

Not if they remove X from gtk+ too. That is the logical next step.

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