Got an Apple Silicon Mac? Want to run Linux? Then you'll need a Wayland-based desktop.
Hector Martin, one of the lead developers of Asahi Linux, is warning that Wayland is the future of graphical desktops on Apple Silicon Macs.on Mastodon, one of the lead developers of the Asahi Linux project to port Linux to Apple Silicon-powered Mac computers has asked users not to use X.org, saying:"we absolutely do not have the bandwidth to spend time on it."
Martin warns that the future of graphical desktops on Apple Silicon is Wayland and nothing but Wayland. Xwayland will be supported, so that X.org apps will run under Wayland based desktops, but the developers hope that people will use only Wayland-based environments on Asahi Linux and related distros.
Up to a point, this is not such a shock for the nascent Linux ecosystem on Arm-ISA-based Macs. These machines have a single family of GPUs, which is closely integrated with the main processor, so there are no questions about which GPU vendor to choose, or what drivers a machine is running – because you have no choice. Additionally, the laptop models' displays, as well as Apple's own external screens, are all hi-DPI devices, or as Apple calls them"retina displays".
If you are a rampaging neophiliac and you actively enjoy using modern desktop environments such as GNOME 40+ and KDE Plasma 5, or one of the handful of tiling environments for Wayland, this won't seem like a big ask. For some Linux desktops that currently don't work with the new display server, adding support might be relatively easy.– and while current versions of Cinnamon don't support anything except X.
KDE Plasma already runs quite well on Wayland, and if you need fractional scaling under KDE today, this
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