Well, a few months ago, we made an executive decision to actually pay one of our core devs to focus on building #Wayland support into #Xfce. Brian has done a great deal of work to make this happen over the past 3ish months.
Don't quote me on this; but, we _might_ enter public beta for #xfwl4 later this year.
I don't expect it to be ready for our 4.22 release. But, good progress is being made.
How to run the snap version of Visual Studio Code on Wayland? #2404 #snap #wayland #visualstudiocode
Linux desktop news feels split in two right now.
On the one hand, Wayland is finally getting long-needed session restore, fractional scaling work is moving forward, Linux gaming just pushed past 5% on Steam, and GitHub had to retreat after backlash over Copilot pull request "tips”.
On the other, the office suite world is a proper mess: Euro-Office has launched, ONLYOFFICE has suspended its Nextcloud partnership over licensing and attribution claims, and the LibreOffice ecosystem is locked in a very public fight between TDF and Collabora.
This is what happens when open source becomes strategically important again. Governance, sovereignty, trademarks, attribution, and control all come to the surface.
Are we seeing healthy competition, or the start of fragmentation that could hurt Linux users?
#Linux #OpenSource #LibreOffice #OnlyOffice #Nextcloud #Wayland #GitHub #LinuxGaming #DigitalSovereignty
How to run snap version of Visual Studio Code on wayland? #2404 #snap #wayland #visualstudiocode
Let me get this straight: The only reason why I can't mirror my screens on most #wayland compositors is that wlr-output-management does not contain a property for screen mirroring?
Why is this not a feature????
I know wl-mirror exists but it's really not that good. The battery drain is real.
(more Linux news in previous posts)
Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.6-Released
A future Wine release could use Zink to run OpenGL via Vulkan:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/a-future-wine-release-could-use-zink-to-run-opengl-via-vulkan/
Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-AIE-SIG-NVIDIA-AI
2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/2D-CAD-Design-GNOME-2026
Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mesa-26-0-4-open-source-graphics-drivers-released-for-linux/
Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.48
April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/April-1-Linux-Patches-2026
AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop
Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32
OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12.1-Released
(FOSS news in comments)
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