"My favorite Linux desktop distribution, Linux Mint, is considering slowing down its release cadence. That's because, as lead developer Clement "Clem" Lefebvre explained, while releasing often has worked very well, it produces "these incremental improvements release after release. But it takes a lot of time, and it caps our ambition when it comes to development. ... [so] We're thinking about changing that and adopting a longer development cycle.""
"The differences between these two popular windowing systems are profound. They do the same job -- drawing windows and handling input -- but they do it with very different architectures and trade‑offs. X11 is a 1980s client-server display protocol in which a central display server (typically Xorg) handles drawing, input, window management, and many legacy features in a single, aging stack."
Linux Mint plans to slow its release cadence to allow larger, more ambitious development cycles and avoid small incremental changes on each release. The next Mint release will still appear soon after Ubuntu 26.04, but will not necessarily mirror Ubuntus shift to Wayland. Mint will continue to support X11 as long as it serves most users best. X11 is described as a 1980s client-server display protocol with a central display server handling drawing, input, and window management. Wayland uses a compositor model and modern APIs such as OpenGL and Vulkan for applications to draw directly.
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