Fedora Linux 43 beta released, drops X11 support to go Wayland only

Fedora Linux 43 beta has been announced. The distro does not support X11 session, it is Wayland-only.

This is because GNOME decided to end support for Xorg. Back in 2023, when GNOME 45 was released, developers began planning the removal of X11.

Since GNOME was dropping the old compositor, Fedora decided it was about time for it to do the same. In April 2025, Fedora said that it was planning to end support for X11 packages, and this decision was finalized in May. However, in a twist a few weeks ago, it was revealed that GNOME 49 release candidate re-enabled X11 support due to some technical issues related to the GNOME Desktop Manager (GDM).

But, this is a temporary change, GNOME does plan to disable X11 in a future version, and it could happen as soon as v50. Despite the reversal, Fedora 43 won't support Xorg, the distro's developers are sticking to the original plan. All GNOME X11 session users will be migrated to the Wayland session.

Fedora 43 will ship with Python 3.14, Linux Kernel 6.17, KDE 6.4, and RPM 6.0. It will come with Mesa 25.1.4 graphics drivers. Beta builds of Fedora 43 Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop, Server, IoT, and Cloud are available for download on the distro's website. For a full list of technical changes in Fedora 43, please refer to the official wiki.

Phoronix reports that the final version of Fedora 43 could be released in late October or early November. X11 is barely maintained, if at all, and it lacks many features that modern hardware supports like multiple monitors with variable refresh rate, fractional scaling, HDR. Wayland on the other hand is superior in almost all aspects, and support for it has been improving for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs steadily.

Hopefully, Mint will get proper Wayland support soon. As a reminder, Linux Mint 22.2 was released at the start of September. KDE Linux's first alpha was also released recently.  The first beta of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is expected to drop this month.

Do you use X11 or Wayland?

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