Budgie 10.10 Desktop Will Be Wayland-Only as Work Continues on Budgie 11
It’s been a great year for the Budgie desktop with releases like Budgie 10.9 and Budgie 10.9.2, both advancing the hard work of porting Budgie to the Wayland display protocol. Many of Budgie’s components have been ported to Wayland already and the team considers it “daily-drivable on Wayland for a typical end user usecase.”
For example, it’s now possible to log into a Budgie Desktop Wayland session on top of the Labwc compositor, launch apps with tasklist grouping, open the Budgie Menu and Raven, switch up the panel position, live stream and screen capture using OBS Studio, and even share your screen in apps.
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Budgie Desktop in 2025: The End of X11 and the Dawn of Wayland-Only
In a recent post, Joshua Strobl, a well-known open-source advocate and lead contributor to the Budgie Desktop project, took a deep dive into the achievements of 2024 and highlighted plans for the year ahead. Here are the most important things.
In 2024, the team completed rigorous testing and daily-driver status on Wayland. Though they aimed to deliver Budgie 10.10 by the end of the year, various development challenges prompted them to shift the release date to 2025. Nevertheless, the result of their 2024 efforts speaks volumes...
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Budgie 10.10 Scheduled for Q1 2025 with a Surpr... » Linux Magazine
Joshua Strobl, primary developer for the Budgie desktop, recently shared his usual “State of the Budgie” that included goals for 2025. The meat of the piece was all about what happened with Budgie in 2024 (which is interesting on its own), but if you scroll down far enough, you'll get a glimpse into what's planned for 2025.
The first bit of news is the release of version 10.10, which is expected in Q1 (between January and March). The biggest announcement, however, is that, with the release of version 10.10, Budgie will be a Wayland-only desktop. Strobl mentions that in git, Budgie has been Wayland-only since July 2024, so I guess this means standard releases will no longer support X11. This is big news because X11 should be considered no longer a viable option (what with security and performance issues).
At the same time, Budgie 10.0 will be set to maintenance mode to keep it working until Budgie 11 is released.