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i will say that wayland has solved a lot of multimonitor issues, although most games where i have monitor issues in my dual monitor setup can be fixed by ensuring the monitor i want to play on is at 0,0 on the layout. sone fames are weird about that
I'm personally allergic to doing anything to my distro other than installing games and VSCodium.
Its why I barely understand the X11 v Wayland discussion. I have no idea how to customize my Linux set up, if a troubleshooting step says "May bork computer if done wrong" I just reinstall the Distro or try another one. It takes like 5-10 minutes to install Linux on most modern computers
To me this is a feature of Linux. "It works on my distro" means I'm using that distro now!
The argument about X11 and Wayland is pretty much over. All the major distros, Fedora, Open Suse, even Debian. And DEs, like Gnome and KDE, have fully committed to Wayland and the smaller DEs, like Cinnamon and Budgie, are in process to make the switch. Only a small handful smaller distros have stomped their feet and said no to the switch so far. So that's not really an issue anymore.
And having lived through the RPM Hell, unmet dependencies, compiling drivers and custom kernels, and unsupported hardware years, if I have issues with a distro that I can't solve in a few days of goggling and effort, then I'm either going to live with it or I'm out.
These days you can just go for wayland, anything that still requires x11 will just launch under xWayland being normal x11 session within your wayland session (like steam, for example)
Yes. That describe my experience well!
I'm vaguely aware of the big transition, but I've felt like Mr Magoo walking blind through it all and luckily missing any headaches.
I did have one intermittent issue that I blamed on Wayland in my heart. But I recently discovered it was actually an issue with my hardware.