I really wanted to like wayland as the 'next big thing', but for the life of me I can't.
* I've yet to see any actual, honest to god benefits for the end user. Literally everything I've seen is the fact that it makes development easier for the wayland devs and harder for literally everyone else.
* Trying to use a wayland window manager outside of gnome or kde leaves you reliant on a bunch of hackish utilities (redshift, taskbar, screen recording / sharing, etc) which are available on AUR and basically no where else
* Scaling and perf for xwayland apps (i.e. most apps) is pretty bad.
Is wayland the future? Maybe, but I'll happily use xorg for the next decade if needed until the user experience is rock solid over on wayland.
* I've yet to see any actual, honest to god benefits for the end user. Literally everything I've seen is the fact that it makes development easier for the wayland devs and harder for literally everyone else.
* Trying to use a wayland window manager outside of gnome or kde leaves you reliant on a bunch of hackish utilities (redshift, taskbar, screen recording / sharing, etc) which are available on AUR and basically no where else
* Scaling and perf for xwayland apps (i.e. most apps) is pretty bad.
Is wayland the future? Maybe, but I'll happily use xorg for the next decade if needed until the user experience is rock solid over on wayland.