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Use X. Wayland is dead on arrival.
For all the mad ones here's a reminder: the Steam Deck uses X for the desktop. You think if Wayland had a future, maybe Valve would see it? Considering they took Wine and made it functional and all.
Nevermind launching games via just Proton itself on the KDE desktop, but even if you use a nested gamescope session - it only supports X.
That's not to mention that for any gaming outside of the steam deck, you're gonna be using a real GPU that can actually play games properly, and NoVideo drivers only support X properly. You can either stay stinky with Wayland, or play with Path Tracing on.
Only GNOME Devs like Wayland. KDE, Valve, Qt and many other FOSS contributor individuals and orgs alike support and use X primarily.
Wayland is the IPv6 of the display protocol world.
Edit: guy replying to me is already blocked, what a surprise!
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