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KDE Neon Developer OS Switches To Plasma Wayland By Default

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 6 September 2016 at 08:54 AM EDT. 36 Comments

KDE developers have decided to switch to Wayland by default for KDE Neon's unstable/developer OS.

KDE Neon, of course, is the project providing daily spins of the bleeding-edge Ubuntu packages atop Ubuntu. Now moving forward with the new developer/unstable packages is the usage of KDE Plasma on Wayland by default.

Neon will be making this change but is waiting on a newer XWayland to land, until Plasma 5.8 is related, and other updates made.

Great to see this happening as it will expose a lot more testing potential for KDE Plasma on Wayland. More details via Martin's blog.

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