Why We’re Making This Change

Over the past several cycles, the Wayland experience has matured significantly, including improved support for Nvidia drivers, offering a more robust security model, stable support for most daily workflows, better graphics stack isolation and improved touch and hiDPI support.

Meanwhile, maintaining both X11 and Wayland sessions introduces technical debt and increases maintenance burden, limiting our ability to innovate efficiently.

GNOME is planning to remove Xorg support for GNOME 49 3. We are taking a proactive step in 25.10 to prepare our users and ecosystem ahead of that deadline.