Canonical has made the decision to revert back to the Xorg display server in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, citing stability concerns. The company plans to continue testing and working on Wayland to improve it.

Kubuntu is also taking the next step in the technology change from Xorg to Wayland. Meanwhile, a dubious fork is trying to breathe new life into Xorg. Kubuntu 25.10 will no longer offer an X11 session ...

Canonical plans to drop the Xserver Xorg in Ubuntu Desktop 25.10, so that the login manager and Gnome desktop will only run in the more modern Wayland mode. The distributor did not provide any ...

CachyOS makes Wayland the default on the live ISO and installer, moving away from X11 as the default. Installer uses Plasma Login Manager, skips Xorg deps for Wayland installs, and includes stable+LTS ...

The Arch Linux installer continues evolving alongside the broader Linux desktop ecosystem. With the release of Archinstall 4.2, a notable change has arrived: Wayland is now the default focus for ...

For over 10 years, a display server protocol called Wayland has been in development. Its goal is to offer Linux-based systems a streamlined alternative to the widely adopted X Window System. Windowing ...