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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Personally, I'm looking forward to native Wayland support for Wine and KDE's port to Qt 6.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wine + Wayland for sure. It's time to let X11 rest, it's earned it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Its all finished, the main developer is porting the source code by patches so its easier for the MR to get accepted by the Wine devs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean? I play games with Lutris on Wayland without issues.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It goes through XWayland, whereas Wine on Wayland would do away with that later