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TLDR: XFCE and Cinnamon devs are ~~begging~~ beginning to work on Wayland support.

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[–] TheGrandNagus 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jumping the gun? It's been working mostly without issue for most people for years now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

just this month I had multiple wayland issues forcing me to switch to an x11 session

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since we're going with anecdotal evidence, I've been using Wayland daily for over a year and haven't had any issues related to it

[–] TheGrandNagus 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ok

Personally X11 is unusably buggy and janky. Just a clearly inferior experience.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

While maybe sometimes buggy, at least things run. I'm all for modernization, but if there are compatibility problems with recent software, I'm not OK with it being declared "the better, mature standard thing everybody should now use".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you ignore all the things where it doesn't.

[–] TheGrandNagus 16 points 1 year ago

Could say the same about X. To me X seems pretty broken and unstable.