The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
Quoting a quote from the article:<p>&gt; <i>The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time. We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum, but let this be a friendly notice for everyone who rely the work we do maintaining the Linux graphics stack, get onto Wayland, that is where the future is.</i><p>The fair warning is appreciated.  Anytime we hear something like this in open source (sometimes after the fact), I try not to prejudge, but I definitely pay attention.  Linus Torvalds notwithstanding, the parties with the development resources effectively make the decisions.  Sometimes such decisions turn out to still be controversial even years after being pushed onto Linux (like GTK3 or Systemd).  I haven&#x27;t yet used Wayland enough to guess how it will turn out.