GNOME 50 Ships as the First Major Desktop Environment to Fully Remove X11, Ending a 40-Year Display Server Era
GNOME 50 completely removes X11 from Mutter, Shell, and GDM, making Wayland the sole display protocol. The release stabilizes VRR and fractional scaling, and will ship in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44.
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