Browser Development • Re: Linux Pale Moon with Qt toolkit

There are forks, yes, but mainstream Linux (we're talking more like Fedora and Debian ecosystem, not the more niche stuff) isn't going to be legacy setups, and the question that really matters for us is how long mainstream distros like those that ship KDE or GNOME will support XWayland.

I understand what you are saying in terms of mainstream, meaning many paid developers and much development. But popularity is also important, and Fedora is not a popular distro among the general populace and especially among Pale Moon users. The forum search hit results aren't all important, but they are fairly telling about general Pale Moon usage stats. Mentions of Ubuntu, Mint, Debian vs Fedora in the forum: Mint 3,989 Ubuntu 3,679 Debian 3,203 Fedora 411

Over 96% of those mentions are not for Fedora.

Fedora is a bleeding edge distro upstream from RHEL that aggressively drops older technologies to reduce their maintenance burden. Fedora's decisions may or may not influence the decisions on the Debian/Ubuntu side; Debian and Ubuntu aren't testing grounds for anything, they are the product. Fedora is dropping Xwayland, Debian/Ubuntu/Mint don't have to and may not. And your users (with some notable exceptions) are not using Fedora.