JetBrains confirms native Wayland support for IntelliJ IDEs starting in 2026.1. The move from X11 improves scaling and performance for Linux developers.

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Longtime Ubuntu Linux fans may remember Canonical’s announcement back in 2010 that it was planning to adopt the OpenGL-based Wayland display management system instead of the venerable X Window system ...

I don't want to deal with Mir. It seems like a bad idea having such an integral piece of the OS being specific to just one distribution. I don't remember offhand why, and a quick google doesn't tell ...

Wayland is no longer a future-facing experiment. For a growing number of Linux distributions, it is simply the default desktop experience today. Some distros made the switch quietly, while others ...

I didn’t see this coming: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu backer Canonical, has announced that somewhere down the road, Ubuntu will be switching Ubuntu’s base graphics system from the venerable X ...