Question about GNOME, kernel, and X11/Wayland in Zorin OS 18

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Hi to whoever can help reply here.

See below for a few questions:

  1. What GNOME version will Zorin OS 18 ship with? 48?

  2. What kernel version will Zorin OS 18 come with? 6.11? 6.12?

  3. I've posted before about glitchy windows in X11 (the glitchy animations that happen when minimizing and raising windows). Will that be fixed for Zorin OS 18? Will Zorin OS 18 come with X11, or will it be a 100% Wayland affair?

Thanks in advance to those who reply.

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  1. In respect of Gnome version I suspect 46 as Zorin 18 will be a fork of Ubuntu 24.04 which uses Gnome 46.

  2. Ubuntu 24.04 came with 6.8 but with step release of 24.04.2 updated to 6.11

  3. I suspect the choice will still be there because Wayland is incapable of:
    a. Remote Desktop;
    b. Screen sharing;
    c. Screen casting.

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Well, I hope the Zorin Group can get a handle on the wonky window behavior in X11 before they release Zorin 18 OS. I rarely do this (out of respect), but I am going to tag @AZorin here this one time and hopefully he'll reply. Shed a little light on X11.

P.S.: Thank you in advance to Artyom if he responds.

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Follow-up:

This is what I'm talking about. Link: CLICK HERE. That leads to a Reddit post.

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When Ubuntu 22.04 launched it used Gnome 42, but Zorin OS 17 managed to use Gnome 43. I'm hoping we can see the same thing here and expect Gnome 47 at least, which has some important improvements that people have requested in Zorin OS, like integration with Microsoft accounts, and better navigation in Nautilus with network shares as well as an improved file picker.

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That would be nice. See if Artyom replies here. Thanks for the history lesson.

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At least gnome 46 should come. If Zorin puts again a newer Gnome Version on, it could be Gnome 47 I would think. for Gnome 48, it could be too late I guess. But You could try it when Debian 13 is released; it will have Gnome 48.

Because Ubuntu 24.04 is now on 6.11, it should be the 6.11 Kernel becase zorin uses the Kernels from the Ubuntu Base.

I wouldn't think, that they ship it Wayland-only. No Offence but Zorin isn't Fedora. When Gnome 50 should really come Wayland-only, then this would affect Zorin, too. But that is a Future Thing.

I guess there is the Question what the Problem is. If it would be X11-related, it would be up to Xorg to fix this.

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Yes, but at the same time, in VirtualBox, I don't see the problem at all.

X11 works perfectly on VirtualBox, which suggests to me it's either a hardware incompatibility (I use AMD) or a driver-related issue somehow. I don't know. I do happen to have an Intel CPU with integrated graphics, and I tried using that instead of my AMD card. Still the same result. So again, I don't know.

It would be nice to use "pure" X11 without having to resort to use XWayland through edits made in applications' .desktop files (which isn't a big deal; I'm just saying it would be nice to have everything working seamlessly without having to go through extra steps - still, not a big deal in and of itself).

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