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Should I switch to Wayland?
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Debian (a very conservative distro) switched to Wayland by default in debian 10 if I'm not mistaken (we're now on 12).
I didn't notice the change until I tried to run a niche program that really needs X11. Unless you're doing this kind of thing, then you can probably just use Wayland. At least in Debian it's really easy to switch between Wayland and X11 by selecting the session type when you log in.
Same with fedora iirc.
I've used fedora for a long time and pretty much had the same experience you described. It works until some random obscure program doesn't like Wayland.