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Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions
Overview of the current state of readiness of the Wayland display server protocol for everyday usage, tested on two physical systems with integrated AMD and hybrid Intel + Nvidia graphics using the Plasma 6 desktop environment, with comparison to X11 across multiple aspects of functionality like stability, responsiveness, HD fractional scaling, mouse behavior, program compatibility, suspend & resume, session restore, login time, display calibration, driver support, and more
Good performance and stability, no issues running various programs, clean display scaling, no weird crashes, or anything alike. Three, Wayland has a fundamental design flaw; indeed, its mission is to make its own development easier (quoted from the original website), and that means it's not intended for the end user, and therefore, it cannot do what it needs to do. Makes me sad, because it reflects upon a much bigger, worrying trend in the wider Linux ecosystem, of attrition, exhaustion, missed goals and opportunities, the lack of focus, and then some.
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