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Wayland is default on several distributions and has some pain points, much like X did in 1999 (it had many back then, and in fact still does today). But it’s definitely usable, it’s my daily driver here.

The main difference is in 1999 X did not have real alternatives, so if you wanted a graphical desktop, you had to fix the X bugs period. Here if you don’t want to deal with wayland issues you can fall back to X. It makes for slower development…



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