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I say this with love for the global Linux community, but we need to be able to laugh at ourselves from time to time.
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I am yet to have a successful testrun of wayland, closest I've had was everything seemed to work fine but some games would straight up not work. I'm sure it would be just fine if I installed a distro that had it by default but at that point it's way beyond the convenience I've heard so much about.
There aren't many distros that don't have it by default.
Debian, a distro literally memed about for moving slowly, has defaulted to Wayland since 2019.
Each desktop environment needs to implement wayland so it's best to leave it to the distro you're using to provide it as an option. For a good wayland experience I'd recommend KDE
I did test it on manjaro kde, not exactly the same, last test run seemed fine in everything but some games and having to select the game each time on obs, I was actually preferring it over x11 if not for some problems
I think you identified the issue, in a way. I don't blame you for wanting to manually install and configure it for understanding purposes, but I can say that hopping straight in to Fedora it seems (mostly) fine. I have had a few weird lockups, but it is far between. Also, as others have griped, drag and drop sucks right now.
There is no such thing as a game that won't work on Wayland, but does on X11. You're conflating other issues with Wayland.
You're inserting blame on Wayland that wasn't there.
"Games would not work on Wayland" sure seems like blaming Wayland. Why is English always up for debate these days? You just fucking said the words.
My biggest problem was that Electron applications just refused to function, so for a while I'd try it, get annoyed and swap back to X11, and then give it a few months and try again. Back in August or so I swapped to Wayland pemanently, decided to just toss the Electron applications that wouldn't work.
Since then the only problem I've had has been with DXVK and games, but only on a particular NVidia driver, so I think we can all guess who the real culprit is.