That really strongly depends on your hardware. My hardware straight up doesn’t work on X11 due to lag spike problems, but wayland works pretty well. It can do everything I need it to, and for whatever it can’t do xwayland is always there. Wayland devs absolutely need to actually implement basic display server features present on every OS ever that they refuse to acknowledge, and gnome devs need to actually get their heads out of their asses and cooperate on making wayland function consistently accross DEs, but wayland is far from bad. It’s pretty good actually if it works on your hardware, and is able to do some things that X11 is incapable of, like mixed refresh rate and multi-monitor VRR which are pretty important if you play games.
“barely usable” is just not even remotely correct. the main remaining hardware where wayland doesn’t work is older nvidia cards, and thats not really the wayland devs fault. every system ive used wayland on has worked fine. Wayland’s improving fast, but I will agree that if the wayland devs want people to actually switch over, they need to find ways to implement things like basic keylogging and screen recording permission management, because saying “just let the desktop environment deal with that” is clearly not going to work.
That really strongly depends on your hardware. My hardware straight up doesn’t work on X11 due to lag spike problems, but wayland works pretty well. It can do everything I need it to, and for whatever it can’t do xwayland is always there. Wayland devs absolutely need to actually implement basic display server features present on every OS ever that they refuse to acknowledge, and gnome devs need to actually get their heads out of their asses and cooperate on making wayland function consistently accross DEs, but wayland is far from bad. It’s pretty good actually if it works on your hardware, and is able to do some things that X11 is incapable of, like mixed refresh rate and multi-monitor VRR which are pretty important if you play games.
“barely usable” is just not even remotely correct. the main remaining hardware where wayland doesn’t work is older nvidia cards, and thats not really the wayland devs fault. every system ive used wayland on has worked fine. Wayland’s improving fast, but I will agree that if the wayland devs want people to actually switch over, they need to find ways to implement things like basic keylogging and screen recording permission management, because saying “just let the desktop environment deal with that” is clearly not going to work.