Hi, all! First post here and I am a new fedora user, so please be gentle :slight_smile: So, I downloaded and clean-installed the default fedora 33 Workstation Edition and was wondering why x11 is my default windowing system? I thought Wayland was supposed to be the default one, but running echo $X…

I’ve read this before here in askfedora, this is what i’ve read, and explanation: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/update-changes-wayland-into-x11/76470/22 Regards.,

X11 default windowing system instead of Wayland

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Meky (Meky Aljan) November 10, 2020, 7:42pm 3

I have the same, I think x11 installed with the NVIDIA driver.

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X11 default windowing system instead of Wayland

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