Taking a longer term view, yet still within the scope of our desired Budgie 10 series changes reflecting the evolving landscape of the Linux desktop, we will implement a replacement Wayland compositor that is built on top of wlroots, which will see its first stable release as “Magpie 1.0”
At such point in time as Magpie 1.0 is released, Budgie 10 will no longer support X11. Budgie 11 will not support X11.
wlroots was an obvious choice for us as it is the most vendor-neutral compositing library and really lives up to its marketing of “about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway”. While Mutter’s excellent Wayland compositor could be viewed as sufficient for the short-term of Budgie 10 series, Budgie 11 will result in a separation from the GNOME stack, and therefore to avoid duplicate effort or further complicating our existing soft fork, we decided to immediately invest time into building a compositor leveraging wlroots.
It looks like even budgie 10.x will drop X11 support.
It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. wlroots requires more configuration to get working than mutter or kwin. I am curious to see if they will integrate that into budgie or if it will be left to the user as it is with sway, hyprland and friends.
I hope wayland gnome gets around to supporting DPMS, that is my current issue with ubuntu/lunar such that I hacked /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and disabled wayland so my screen could sleep. Haven’t tried it on EOS yet, but then I haven’t got it out side of a command line VM yet, either.
Here there aren’t too many 6000 series cards available at least from the supplier i use and they are more expensive than the 7600 in some cases. I don’t typically look around much as my supplier has the best prices and has had in all of Canada for many many years.
