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I'm using wayland right now, but still use X11 sometimes. I love the discussion and different viewpoints. They are different protocols, with different strengths and weaknesses. People talking about it js a vitrue in my opinion
I can only use x11 myself. The drivers for Wayland on nvidia aren't ready for prime time yet, my browser flickers and some games don't render properly. I'm frankly surprised the KDE folks shipped it out
Being I'm on Mint Cinnamon and using an Nvidia card, I've never even tried to run Wayland on this machine. Seems to work okay on the little Lenovo I put Fedora GNOME on. X11 is still working remarkably well for me, and I'm looking forward to the new features in Wayland once the last few kinks are worked out with it.
I like the fact that I can exercise my difficulty with usage commitment by installing both and switching between them :D.
Wayland is so buttery smooth it feels like I just upgraded my computer for free...but I still get some window Z-fighting and screen recording problems and other weirdness.
I'm glad X11 is still there to fall back on, even if it really feels janky from an experience point of view now.
For me, it's building software from source on musl. Just one more variable to contend with