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GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled
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Those are all good reasons. XFCE aims to support Wayland with the next release, so if they choose to use an established compositor it shouldn't be too buggy.
With XFCE porting their apps over the setup shouldn't change much, unless you're using Xorg specific tools.
Over the last few years most features I'd expect from a windowing system were added to Wayland, so I expect the drama to cool down. (I don't even know what's still missing (except accessibility), with VRR, tearing, DRM leasing (VR), and global hotkeys being done. It's just apps like Discord that have to cave in under the pressure to fix their apps.)
Once everything works, there's no point talking about it.
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I totally expect one day a XFCE (Wayland) option will show up, I will click it, forget I did, and use it forever more.
https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap
@Chewy7324 @wer2 I'll happily use wayland once XFCE officially releases support. I'm sure there may be a few kinks to work out or whatever with the initial release, but that's to be expected....