Lubuntu 24.04 LTS Aiming For Optional Wayland Session, Default in 24.10

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LXQt is the resource friendly and user friendly pick nowadays. So having good Wayland support for LXQt is a big deal, as Wayland (besides being the future) has the potential to reduce resource usage even further.

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[ as long as Qt is maintained, free and its source code accessible (for community versions) and for users wanting to return back to Windows_only one could recommend Sway 'SirCmpwn's Wayland compositor' (and keyboard navigation)

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[V10lator]

Does anyone know here what compositor they plan to use? I don't see anything in the announcement. Maybe KWin or Mir?

I don't know more than you, too, but if I would have to take a bet it would be on https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Mir-Miriway-2023 - I mean roughly a month between the two announcements, Miriway having config files for LXQT, Miriway beeing designed to run "other" desktops on Ubuntu and so on.

[nerdistmonk]

LXQT, LXDE, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, Budgie, Unity, COSMIC, Enlightenment, Bodhi, CDE, NSCDE, thousands of window managers, ...

Do we really need more than KDE Plasma (for the general user), GNOME (for the Red Had employees), and IceWM (for ancient machines)?

I'd quit using linux entirely if MATE gets lost because of the wayland business, KDE/Gnome? yeah may as well use windows or mac at that point.