For decades, desktop Linux distributions primarily used the X Window System (X11) for rendering displays and graphics, but ...

KDE Plasma will remove X11 support in Plasma 6.8 — transition expected in early 2027. Most Plasma users already use Wayland, so dropping X11 will affect few. If you need X11, use LTS distros or ...

Wayland is the Linux display server that has been in the slow, steady process of taking over X11 to deliver a more modern, robust, and secure GUI for Linux. Wayland offers better performance, better ...

The purpose of this page is to provide Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users guidance on how to use X Window System (X11; X) forwarding with Teton. X11 is a great tool for interactively viewing R ...

If you are a Linux user that has to use Windows — or even a Windows user that needs some Linux support — Cygwin has long been a great tool for getting things done. It provides a nearly complete Linux ...

The life of a Linux user can be a bit difficult. Sometimes you have to — or want to — run Windows. Why Windows? Sometimes you have a work computer or a laptop that Linux doesn’t support well. Or it ...

Kali Linux 2025.4 marks a major shift with Wayland-only desktops, stronger VM support, faster workflows, and early AI-driven ...

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post this week contemplating the possibility of making Ubuntu's new Unity shell work on the Wayland display system, with the aim of eventually shipping ...

While Fedora is never shy about making extensive changes to its Linux distribution, the two significant changes for the now-released version 43 have required further development, and in the case of ...

When I started programming many years ago, on a system very, very different from what we use now, producing graphical output from programs was easy; all the necessary commands were usually built right ...