Official stance on dropping X11 from major release 16?

That’s an opinion. If you check many posts, folks will ask, “log in with Plasma X11 and see if it works”. … “oh thanks, my display works properly”. It’s rare the opposite.

Like on our machines. Wayland is lacking.

It’s not an opinion, @myswtest , as much as it might not be great to hear.

Edge cases where applications work improperly isn’t the fault of Wayland, and specific hardware issues can’t be pinned on Wayland.

There are other instances where an application or a machine won’t work properly with an X session either. The issue lies with the specific app or hardware configuration.

Blaming Wayland any time something doesn’t work is a copout that actually avoids fixing real issues because Wayland has become the scapegoat.

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Wayland is ready and X11 is (quite) unmaintained for a long time. Some small wrinkles, but which software has no wrinkles?

For users of Optimus hardware, as example, Wayland should be prefered. It outperforms X11, which had noticable lags on some hardware when switching between applications and more.

But yeah, there are always some ppl which are not open for changes (which already happened decades ago) and purposely want to stick to the “good, old times” and claim that the new stuff is bad and the old deprecated stuff still flying :man_shrugging:

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X11 is (quite) unmaintained

true that X11 is mostly abandoned and Wayland is intensively developed these days

Some small wrinkles

sometimes it’s just wrinkles, other times it’s lack of X11 functionality in Wayland that requires to be implemented in user software (I suppose it’s more important than small wrinkles)

For users of Optimus hardware, as example, Wayland should be prefered. It outperforms X11, which had noticable lags on some hardware

There are individual cases when Wayland outperforms X11, in other ones X11 outperforms Wayland (like this frustration with input latency under Wayland Hard numbers in the Wayland vs X11 input latency discussion - Mort's Ramblings).
So that it’s not the case for general assumptions. Yes, there’s a lot of other reasons, but certainly it’s not this one.

there are always some ppl … claim that the new stuff is bad and the old deprecated stuff still flying

or more precisely: the new stuff is not bad, and at the same time the old one still works (sometimes worse, sometimes better).
There’s only one clear thing, Wayland is the thing to be used for new projects because X11 is mostly abandoned.

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Time for more bug reports on what’s not working and what is under Wayland?

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Yes, more users need to make the effort to submit bug reports when encountering Wayland desktop issues, (especially those with hybrid graphics and multi-monitor setups).