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I need them to decide on Wayland or x and make the damn switch. I'm tired of switching servers for apps.
They did. It's Wayland. Everything should work in Wayland now. It's the default for everything, even xfce (4.20+), and x compatibility is handled by xwayland.
I've been running Ubuntu lts waiting on a new one, so it's a me problem as usual. Getting new hardware soon, I'll play with some big boy distros
You can jump to 25.10 for the short-term release, and there's a preview available for 26.04 (officially releases in April), both of which have Wayland by default in Plasma and I believe Gnome.
Though I would strongly recommend you try Debian, version 13 (Trixie) includes Plasma 6 and of course Wayland by default.
It's a bright future.
I don't remember why but I was trying to stay on Ubuntu lts on this computer. Honestly I need to just wipe the drive and start over.
It was probably from before Debian included the non-free firmware in the installation media, so you had to scramble to put those on a floppy disk or something, all while your system was out of commission.
🤣 I missed floppy's but I remember those days
I miss Zip Disks. Those things were so cool and so outclassed by perpendicular progress.
They were expensive too. My dad had them for something. and then the media died.
Terrible timing. Just like the WonderSwan.