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X11 vs Wayland
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Some things still don't work on Wayland.
(Like screen sharing with Anydesk, as an example I ran into yesterday)
But at this point, I just replace the thing that still requires X11 with an alternative, or find a different solution.
X11 is dead tech. Wayland has its own issues, but it's better than X11 in almost every way now, actively maintained, and it's the current standard.
no screensharing seems to work, at least none of those i tested, not even jitsi meet. i get the point of "being maintained". but but what does it actually do better?
Test better.
Of course you can expect things with names like "Xultra-Xold-Xscreen-Xsharing-Xtool-11" to not work. Trying any of those and complaining it doesn't work is just disingenuous and facetious.
Edit: I forgot you had a real question after the misinformation. Here's some things Wayland does better
But it's just to name a few, you know...
Yup. Zoom works, so does google meet.
What you listed is heavily dependent on compositor. Screensharing for my wayland setup meant setting up 6 deamons that talk among eachother. It's not difficult once set up, but still...