yea, but those users can still upgrade to 6.7 which isn't even out yet, and then also remain on that as a supported release for a significant amount of time.
And you'd have to balance all this against the wealth of severe X security bugs that have been coming out even just this week, and the maintenance burden of supporting it in a volunteer project with limited backing.
There's an argument that they are being too conservative. Other DEs like GNOME have already dropped X.
5% is a huge amount of users for something like KDE.
yea, but those users can still upgrade to 6.7 which isn't even out yet, and then also remain on that as a supported release for a significant amount of time.
And you'd have to balance all this against the wealth of severe X security bugs that have been coming out even just this week, and the maintenance burden of supporting it in a volunteer project with limited backing.
There's an argument that they are being too conservative. Other DEs like GNOME have already dropped X.
That really only matters if the number goes down; I don't think it will. It might be more useful to figure out why people are still on X11.
Then again, it's FOSS, so expectations need to match that.