Well, I think I called this about a month ago (and I don’t even read the KDE mailing list).
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Wayland is viable. I just installed Plasma 6 on a mini PC this week and in the year since I’ve last tried Wayland I now only have two applications that require X-wayland. (Even Audacity is finally working as intended.) I’ve been using these two X11 apps for 15 years and will not be giving them up. For reference, my daily driver is Joe’s Window Manager on Xll. But that PC is from the Obama era.
Its a long time goal that i’ve was waiting for a long time!
edit: 2 years to be more precise.
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It looks it still gets out at nights…
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I personally think this is genius and generous: offer two.
People like Josh don’t have time and money for this (Budgie) but people like Mint (Cinnamon) do..
The article does not speak of any death of X11; just the opposite.
I hope other DE devs get on board. All my Wayand experiences have sucked &%$# and I’d love to have a fall-back. or a choice, instead of ‘Wayland or the Highway’ that most are proposing.
Very forward-thinking by the KDE people.
"The code for these X11 and Wayland targets is now separate but co-installable. It’s up to the Linux distributions to decide whether to ship one or both of these KWin implementations. "
I can dig it.
Actually you missed the important part. X11 codebase will not be developed past 7.0. Or I’m pretty sure that’s what I interpolated.
With the rate they’re blazing through numbers, that might be 2026. Or might be 2030, I don’t know.
ugh I forgot the rhel people said their mission was to kill it, or something like that…I was hoping a merry band of dreamers and misifts would take the X11 off their hands and continue developing it forever…(a dream or a movie? 
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Well that’s always possible, Linux is certainly the land for forks 
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