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Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org
In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release will also ship without support for running the GNOME desktop on X11.
Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team announced minutes ago that Ubuntu 25.10 will be shipping without support for GNOME on X.Org. Meanwhile, maintaining both X11 and Wayland sessions introduces technical debt and increases maintenance burden, limiting our ability to innovate efficiently. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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