Explore the unexpected benefits of X11 that are making Linux users hesitant to embrace the new Wayland technology.

GNOME 50 drops X11 backend — GNOME now Wayland-only for its own sessions. X11 apps keep working via XWayland, but you can't boot GNOME into an X11 session anymore. GNOME removed X11 support in GDM, ...

I've been trying to get a functional systray and notifications for X11 applications I run under XQuartz on my Mac, esp. to KF5 applications (using Qt's XCB plugin). I'm currently using the XCFE ...