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[–] Slevin06 0 points 3 months ago

Wayland implementations can still be hot garbage on any of the major DE's depending on the hardware and use case. The "iT WoRks FiNe FoR mE, SmOoTh aS butter" crowd don't help this. I'm willing to bet that a lot of issues that people write off as a "linux" problem is actually a Wayland problem and don't bother to test under a true x11 only environment (KDE x11 does not count). My ultimate issue with this constant Wayland changeover evangelising is the failure to identify actual end user problems that need solving so badly that it requires forcing through an entirely new and often broken system.