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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
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Most programs you use (provided they are FOSS) probably already support Wayland, they just don't do it by default. The following list of environment variables can go a long way in making your system largely Wayland-native.
My desktop is basically just used for gaming so like nothing there is FOSS. My laptop is used for work which requires a ton of remoting so again Wayland would not work.
Funny how a 10 second "wayland remote desktop" web search disproves that claim.
Last time I tried that it just launched through xwayland. And currently my laptop is using X11 because Nvidia GPU so I can't re-test.
All notebook released in the last several years with an NVidia dGPU also have an AMD or Intel iGPU.
Sure and X11 actually works with it's GPU while Wayland causes more issues than its worth. I'm not gonna use software that locks off my GPU especially if that software has no advantages for me.
Sure, shift the blame of NVidia's shitty Linux and Wayland support to Wayland. How on earth could a multi-billion dollar company ever manage to make proper drivers only 11 years after Wayland 1.0 has been released...? THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! WAYLAND BAD!
Never said that. It's probably going to be better at some point but for the average user X11 is still a better option.
The average user has Intel/AMD iGPUs and uses whatever is default which in fact is Wayland in case of Gnome and Steam Deck Game Mode.
Nope, steam deck is X11, just checked mine.
Yea, most people use the default, like I use Wayland on my desktop which is almost exclusively used for games so 99.9% of applications launch through xwayland. I'm saying Wayland doesn't have advantages over X11 for the average user and for anyone with an Nvidia GPU it is an active hindrance.
Then you checked wrong and don't understand the difference between Game Mode and Desktop Mode.
You bought an expensive product with incomplete drivers. The hindrance is NVidia.
On the other hand... if you are primarily gaming on your PC, then the moment Wine supports Wayland 90% of your programs will be Wayland-native.
And that would be great if/when it happens but currently Wayland offers very little over X11 to the average user. Better multi monitor support is like the only thing.
Theoretically an average user should feel nothing. The benefits of Wayland are usually more visible when more modern technologies are involved, for example VRR, high DPI, HDR, etc.