Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg
The Canonical Desktop Team have announced that starting with Ubuntu 25.10, they’re going all-in with GNOME on Wayland.
In a post on the official Discourse Forum from developer Jean Baptiste Lallement, they stated that with Ubuntu 25.10 they are “taking a significant step forward in the evolution of the Ubuntu Desktop by removing the Xorg-based Ubuntu session” and so it will be exclusively Wayland. Why? They said the decision “follows upstream GNOME’s roadmap and aligns with our long-term strategy of delivering a secure, performant, and modern desktop experience”.
And the fact is, Wayland is the future and the more distributions that force it by default, the quicker the Linux world can move on and continue improving.
Since Ubuntu 25.10 is the last interim release before the next LTS (long-term support) with Ubuntu 26.04 next year, this move makes sense. It means they can smoothen any rough edges by the time the LTS releases.
See more in their forum post.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
