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this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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Its 17 yrs old now, and most wms use it, some don't, but almost all either support it or require it, and the only issues I've had are due to electron not having ozone on by default. I don't think it's progress necessarily, but it's most definitely on par with x11 by now
On par with X11? Have you tried to do anything even slightly "weird"?
It's not on par with X11 and probably never will be, because the Wayland people just go "that's out of scope! beg your DE to implement it!" for EVERYTHING.
KDE only VERY recently got the ability to do custom resolutions, which are absolutely critical if you have a CRT monitor, like one release before they're going to drop X11 completely. I think a few smaller compositors also have a protocol for that, but like, Gnome? Good fucking luck. They HATE features and probably love the fact that they can just refuse to implement basic stuff and leave you with no way to work around them at the X level.
Our vim clipboard support still doesn't work. It's supposed to work (vim says it supports wayland). Guess what, it doesn't.
wl-copy/paste needs to OPEN A WINDOW and take focus to get the clipboard (for... Reasons™... "but SECURITY!"...) and KDE's focus stealing prevention blocked it from taking focus, meaning it would just hang forever until we added a window rule for it.
We still, as far as I know, have no way to disable our PS4 controller's trackpad from working as a trackpad, without affecting the ability to use it in steam input, without affecting other trackpads on the system if there are any. Because "that's weird, who would want that?" and nobody thought to build the tooling to let you do that.
I'm sorry no, that's not a functioning replacement for X11. People SAY it is. That doesn't make it true.
-- Frost
Wayland fixes the screen tearing problem X11 always had. Yes, it is not 100% completed yet but development is going forward. X11 were really hard to work with due to all patching. Security is better with wayland. And no more xorg conf editing. I hate it to increase the mouse wheel speed.
Wait, since when did X11 have a screen tearing problem?
Like yeah, if you're not running a compositor you're gonna get screen tearing unless you turn on TearFree, but a) hey native triple buffered everything! (except on Nvidia because Nvidia doesn't care) and b) all of that is moot if you do run a compositor. That said KWin on X11 has frame pacing issues so disabling its compositing to play games is a good idea. You don't have to do that on Wayland. Also c) games can totally do vsync themselves, can't they?
At least you CAN do xorg.conf stuff. With Wayland, if your DE doesn't provide you a scroll speed slider you're just fucked.
And about "security"... sure, if malicious apps on your system are even part of your threat model in the first place. It makes sense for phones. On desktop though, most malicious stuff is probably confined to your web browser anyway. I'd rather have working copy-paste and window control scripting and suchlike.