Wayland Session Now Installed by Default in Latest KDE Neon Dev Unstable ISOs

Wayland, the next-generation display server for Linux-based operating systems is on its way to becoming ready for everyday use, and the KDE Neon development team took a step further with their KDE Plasma Wayland implementation.

Instead of providing those Plasma Wayland ISO images for those who wanted to test drive Wayland on the latest KDE Neon builds, they installed the Wayland session by default on the KDE Neon Developer Unstable ISOs, though, to try it, you'll have to log out, select the Wayland session from the login screen, and log back in.

On the other hand, if you're downloading the latest KDE Neon Developer Unstable ISO images and install them on a new computer to test Wayland, you’ll have to relay on the X11 session because the Calamares does not run in Wayland as it needs root. Once KDE Neon is installed, make sure you select the Wayland session at login.

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