Comment by LeFantome

Xorg is not dead. It is maintained by one of those corporations you are talking about. And since 2/3 of the Xorg code is in Xwayland, they will be maintaining it for a very long time to come. It is not going anywhere.

But already a majority of Linux desktop users have stopped using it. And it will be 90% in the next 2-3 years. GNOME, KDE, Budgie, and COSMIC are effectively Wayland only now and XFCE and Cinnamon will be Wayland native before then.

The GTK5 devs do not have to “kill off” X11. But it is not really worth their time either.

Keep using Xorg, or Xlibre, or Phoenix. It should keep working.

But don’t mind if the rest of us keep building on Wayland.

By the way, I use Niri, a very cool and absolutely non-corporate Wayland compositor. Not sure how that fits into your narrative.