Individual GNOME applications
Individual GNOME applications
Posted Jun 29, 2025 15:01 UTC (Sun) by linuxrocks123 (guest, #34648)In reply to: Individual GNOME applications by pizza
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies
> But let's take Debian's limited opt-in popcon stats (about 300K respondents). xfce, kde, gnome, mate, and cinnamon come to about 21%, 21%, 42%, 11%, and 4% respectively. That gives about 59% of Wayland-capable environments. mate will probably be there in its next release.
Since all of those desktops also work under X, with those numbers, you'd need about 85% of all desktops that theoretically could be running Wayland to be running it instead of X. That seems unlikely to me.
> Given that RHEL7 dropped out of support a literal year ago (June 30, 2024), I'm gonna have to go [citation needed] on this one.
I've had to use RHEL7 within the last few months. You can buy extended support, and these places do.
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