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KDE Plasma 6 On Wayland Can Work Fine On FreeBSD


While the BSDs don't see nearly as much activity around Wayland as the desktop Linux distributions and they continue to predominantly rely on the X.Org Server by default, the modern KDE Plasma 6 desktop can in fact work fine on Wayland under FreeBSD 14 and the upcoming FreeBSD 15.0 release.

While the BSDs don't see nearly as much activity around Wayland as the desktop Linux distributions and they continue to predominantly rely on the X.Org Server by default, the modern KDE Plasma 6 desktop can in fact work fine on Wayland under FreeBSD 14 and the upcoming FreeBSD 15.0 release. Notably now Adriaan has FreeBSD + KDE Plasma 6 + Wayland working nicely together compared to prior attempts of his that resulted in hangs. Those wanting to learn more about running KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland on FreeBSD can do so via Adriaan's blog.

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