Thanks. I just asked grok to summarise the state of wayland support in the lightweight distros - it seems that lxqt is most advanced with high development effort followed by xfce the then mate and cinnamon some way behind. You can try a wayland session in lxqt on debian and presumably on rpi os trixie. Also I think there is essentially full support on arch already. I am looking for an alternative desktop to lxde which I have used for the last 10 years on Raspberry pis and lots of laptops and desktops. I think lxqt seems the lowest risk way forward for another 10 years with earliest support for full wayland. I particularly like the kvantum theming on lxqt so I have white on black text at a decent font size which near 80 year old eyes need and I can use qss stylesheets to get wider and high contrast scrollbars amongst other things
Statistics: Posted by drmullins — Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:18 pm