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I don't remember which anymore, but a bit over a year ago, I tried switching everything to Wayland, and had too many problems in my specific hardware setup, went back to x11 and some things just broke and some apps I couldn't use. It was not a pleasant journey, so to say. The transition itself can also be a problem, some things can stay in a config and then not be properly reconfigured.

I've used sway, as an example to Wayland only, and if you have specific things configured around Wayland as a compositor, they break too..

But that shouldn't really be the focus point of the discussion, what really is the point, you don't just yank a whole system wide config out from under an unsuspecting user, there's so many variables you just don't know or can account for. Creating a stable application, is also respecting other apps and the system it runs on, not just going in blazin' fixing things for yourself and then not caring about what side effect/consequences it can have. And worse, not informing about it properly.



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