> "Wayland, in contrast, is universally applauded, but largely runs Gnome and a bunch of infotainment systems for automotive applications."
Wayland is still being rolled out, it hasn't even managed to be the default compositor on any major Linux distros yet (though I heard that Fedora may choose to default to Wayland for its next release). Furthermore, KDE devs are clearly working on Wayland support, so it's not limited to one DE.
> "Also, at the risk of looking like someone who wears his tinfoil hat to bed, it's worth considering that the two major improvements are largely relevant only for multimedia-super-heavy stuff and staying relatively safe from a legal standpoint while running 3rd party, untrusted (cough usually closed source cough) applications on a system that you manufacture and sell"
What are you talking about? There's no closed source bias with Wayland.
Wayland is still being rolled out, it hasn't even managed to be the default compositor on any major Linux distros yet (though I heard that Fedora may choose to default to Wayland for its next release). Furthermore, KDE devs are clearly working on Wayland support, so it's not limited to one DE.
> "Also, at the risk of looking like someone who wears his tinfoil hat to bed, it's worth considering that the two major improvements are largely relevant only for multimedia-super-heavy stuff and staying relatively safe from a legal standpoint while running 3rd party, untrusted (cough usually closed source cough) applications on a system that you manufacture and sell"
What are you talking about? There's no closed source bias with Wayland.