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No, I’m saying that some distros run things under Wayland by default. The distro I use, Bazzite, does this. You can still use Xorg if you want, but the default session is Wayland. It isn’t the sole display protocol, because you can also select X11 when you log in, if you run into some compatibility problem.
Bazzite founder here, We actually ship with no X11 session installed. This change was made when we rebased on Fedora 41.
You can of course install one, but it's our policy that if you open an issue while using X11 we ask you to try again on Wayland, and if it doesn't happen there your issue is getting closed.
When proton rebases on the latest wine we will be very close to being in a position where we can just remove all xWayland packages, I suspect that will happen in the next few years.
Oh, I remember back in the day when X11 was there, but I honestly haven’t used it in ages, so I never noticed it was gone. Thanks for the clarification!
Okay so you're saying they have a default setting which is a fairly meaningless metric. As the dev confirmed below they also ship without X11 (only Xwayland presumably) which is a more substantial change.