6/2/2026 at 3:45:37 PM
5% is a huge amount of users for something like KDE.by eqvinox
6/2/2026 at 4:19:57 PM
yea, but those users can still upgrade to 6.7 which isn't even out yet, and then also remain on that as a supported release for a significant amount of time.And you'd have to balance all this against the wealth of severe X security bugs that have been coming out even just this week, and the maintenance burden of supporting it in a volunteer project with limited backing.
There's an argument that they are being too conservative. Other DEs like GNOME have already dropped X.
by nwah1
6/2/2026 at 4:22:46 PM
That really only matters if the number goes down; I don't think it will. It might be more useful to figure out why people are still on X11.Then again, it's FOSS, so expectations need to match that.
by eqvinox