# Will Netrunner use Wayland down the road?

**URL:** https://support.blue-systems.com/t/will-netrunner-use-wayland-down-the-road/5353
**Category:** General
**Created:** [March 2, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/will-netrunner-use-wayland-down-the-road/5353 "2025-03-02T02:13:14Z")
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### Author: ![crosscourt](https://support.blue-systems.com/user_avatar/support.blue-systems.com/crosscourt/32/459_2.png) [@crosscourt](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/crosscourt)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/will-netrunner-use-wayland-down-the-road/5353/1 "2025-03-02T02:13:14Z")

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Im actually happy with X11 presently but will Netrunner eventually also offer Wayland, as Debian already does.

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### Author: ![jp99](https://support.blue-systems.com/letter_avatar/jp99/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@jp99](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/jp99)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/will-netrunner-use-wayland-down-the-road/5353/2 "2025-03-02T05:20:31Z")

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“Plasma/Wayland has been the default since Debian 12/bookworm. In graphical login-manager like SDDM you can select Plasma/X11 if desired.” Also here:

> **[Plasma 6 - Debian Wiki](https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206)**

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### Author: ![crosscourt](https://support.blue-systems.com/user_avatar/support.blue-systems.com/crosscourt/32/459_2.png) [@crosscourt](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/crosscourt)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/will-netrunner-use-wayland-down-the-road/5353/3 "2025-03-02T19:08:40Z")

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Was already aware that Wayland was default with Debian previously but at my first entry into Netrunner I saw no option for switching to Wayland initially. There are distros that dont use Wayland even though they are based ob Debian 12. Thanks

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### Author: ![crosscourt](https://support.blue-systems.com/user_avatar/support.blue-systems.com/crosscourt/32/459_2.png) [@crosscourt](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/crosscourt)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/will-netrunner-use-wayland-down-the-road/5353/4 "2025-03-02T19:32:31Z")

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I rechecked at login screen in Netrunner 25 and there is no option to switch into a Wayland session as I mentioned originally. Most of my other distros have the option available at login. X11 is being used at this time.

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### Author: ![uri\_herrera](https://support.blue-systems.com/user_avatar/support.blue-systems.com/uri_herrera/32/373_2.png) [@uri\_herrera](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/uri_herrera)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/will-netrunner-use-wayland-down-the-road/5353/5 "2025-03-11T04:33:07Z")

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At present, there’s no decision regarding using Wayland. We’ll evaluate it in the coming months after Debian 13 is released.

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### Author: ![crosscourt](https://support.blue-systems.com/user_avatar/support.blue-systems.com/crosscourt/32/459_2.png) [@crosscourt](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/crosscourt)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/will-netrunner-use-wayland-down-the-road/5353/6 "2025-06-10T21:10:10Z")

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Debian appears they are going to force Wayland as default and youll have to enable X11 to use it.  
KDE seems to be hell bent to head towards Wayland same as Gnome.