[lproven]

> Very few things are dropping support for X11 right now

GNOME 49 will drop X11 sessions completely. That in turn means that the default editions of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 drop X11 session support.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/ubuntu_2510_to_drop_x...

Arch will presumably pick up GNOME 49 as soon as it's released, and so GNOME on Arch will also drop X11 session support this (northern hemisphere) autumn.

I know that most Ubuntu users run LTS versions, but still, those are probably the 3 most widely-used Linux distros in the Western world, and as such, I think the statement that "very few" things is false where it applies to Linux distros.

[jchw]

When I said that, I meant applications and UI toolkits are not dropping X11 support. Non-LTS OSes will definitely be dropping X11 support pretty soon, since yes, KDE and GNOME are both throwing in the towel. To me the timeline seems about right for that too.