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The longer Mint doesn't get Wayland, the longer I won't get headaches.
Genuine question: wayland gives you headaches? On x11 my app windows move like my screen is at 30hz even when it is as 120hz, which i find a bit unpleasant. A colleague using the same laptop model (running arch, he wants you to know) with gnome and wayland has buttery smooth window movement and I am jealous.
It gives me headaches because X applications I need don't work and there are no good Wayland alternatives, is what I meant.
Isn't that what Xwayland was created for? What sort of applications are these?
There are things that fundamentally don't work in Wayland by design. One of them is injecting synthetic events into other applications, and at least 2 of the applications I use all the time need it (password manager-like apps that "type" secure codes into arbitrary text fields).