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Aside from a simple flag change and a recompile before Canonical adds the packages to their repo, it doesn't sound like this will affect Ubuntu at all. They probably already do this anyway to add their own little patches.
GNOME 50 is when Canonical will truly need to either move to Wayland or do something else.
Seems fairly reasonable of a timeline from the GNOME team, IMO.
Something tells me Canonical won't just kneel to THE ALMIGHTY GNOME TEAM
i think they will still offer a x11 session as fallback, why not. its not much effort for now.
is there anything big still missing from wayland at this point, though? even nvidia is defaulting to wayland these days on ubuntu.
Yeah, but Canonical have stated they want X11 session support (for GDM to be able to launch, not necessarily for GNOME's X11 session), for 26.04 LTS, for one last LTS.