If you do much gaming or screen recording/streaming it's quite broken. Performance is *still* worse than X, and games will randomly crash or have strange issues.
On top of its just being a stupid design. I tried Gnome out to see if things were any better outside of (what used to be called) WMs (they're not). Went to take a screenshot and my screenshot tool didn't work. Because, of course, something as basic as a screenshot tool is "compositor"-specific.
It's fine for very basic usage - web browsers, terminals, desktop applications - but it falls down if you try to do anything beyond that. The fact that screen recording *still* doesn't work right, especially if you're working with both wayland and xwayland clients, is kinda shocking. But again, it's all per-compositor.
It's a stupid design which only makes sense in an environment where you don't trust your software, I can only assume it was designed with phones in mind rather than desktop computers. *And* it still doesn't work.
Meanwhile, X works great.
I hardly feel I'm in a position to comment. I stopped taking an active interest in the development of Linux and its parts just about the time there were stirrings about an extraordinarily horribly named thing called Wayland. I run 2 raspberry Pi boxes with Raspbian that I occasionally update and prod. One is just there to run Apache and some Samba shares to backup the various Windows machines around the house. The other has the snap for my Nextcloud server and I really ought to take more care of it. My music PC will shortly become a Linux computer as it won't update to Windows 11, so I may be more interested then. The point of this ramble is, where does the pressure to move to Wayland come from? Seems to me, from what I can make out, that the pressure is from the corporate world and developers with a corporate view of things.
Am I misguided about that? It just seems to me that the obsession with the supposed insecurity of xorg (as witnessed by the plethora of x11 viruses) is exactly what litigation-averse corporate types worry about. As a bonus, Wayland wipes out a multitude of interesting and useful things that that xorg offers. The last thing a corporate IT department wants is developers doing interesting and useful things that aren't controlled from the top, or that may not focus on the margin.
Oh right. That's why I run Win10 in dual-boot for gaming (triple-boot with Win7 bare metal on board, which I've pretty much stopped using since I switched it to virtualbox on Fedora, with considerable performance and stability gains).
Are you running games through Wine or are they linux-native (is there such a thing) ?
I don't think I'd try Wayland desktop on a low-power box like a Pi, I would probably go command-line, especially for Apache and file-sharing. I'm not really familiar with Wayland and all its talking points, I decided to try it after running x for many years, and I can't say I've been disappointed. Maybe it's too bad that corporate interests (IBM, née RedHat) have taken over great swaths of Linux development, and bent it to their needs. OTOH there seems to be a paucity of developers who will work for free.
First commit Sep 2008, first release Feb 2012, API stability Jul 2013.
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Long before Wayland reaches a satisfactory level, it'll have been replaced by SystemD's display server..
I mainly run everything headless anyway. The default for Raspbian (Debian) is now Wayland, although you can choose to switch back to x11 with the raspi-config tool. I'm running x on both machines at present but neither of them are on the latest distro. I suppose I should update my Nextcloud box as this is pointing at the web.
I have no idea how IBM run their Redhat business: probably every bit as heartlessly as any other vast corporation. I used to have a lot of time for the IBM people I worked with who all seemed pretty decent people. But then again, that was mainly on DB2, and DB2 is a world within a world at IBM, and a huge number of the staff are enthusiasts who love working with DB2.
Linux gaming is amazing currently.
There are some Linux native games but game devs really don't know what they're doing with Linux so Proton (Valve's Wine fork) is usually preferable.
Virtually everything on Steam runs in Proton. The only exceptions tend to be stuff with very invasive anti-cheat. There is support for that in Proton but the dev has to toggle it on.
Everything else runs great. Generally within singe digits fps of Windows performance, sometimes better than Windows, and improving constantly.
I game a lot and I've not touched Windows for well over ten years.
The Steam Deck has helped too. Virtually everything was running in Proton anyway, but now devs care about Proton performance.
Haha. I'd kinda welcome that. Much as systemd can be annoying at times, their shit *works*.
Except when it deletes your entire home directory, refuses to shutdown, falls-back to Google DNS servers, misuses private Google time servers, etc...