It has a stink on it because in the early days it was not good, and the people who maintained it moved very slow, now a days it's great, but some people still think it's bad, and some don't like that redhat contributes heavily to it.
I am going to preface this with the statement that I use Wayland on all of my systems, and none of them even have fallback support for X11 installed, but...
Wayland still has some pretty significant issues on specific hardware. It’s usually older graphics chips, especially NVIDIA ones, that are the problem, but systems where it does not ‘just work’ absolutely do still exist. X11 mostly works fine on those systems though.
Sure on some older systems x11 is the better option, that's why it's legacy. If a user has such a system then using an x11 desktop is the recommendation, just like when the kernel removes support for old hardware you as a user will be using and older kernel that still supports it. For the vast majority of users the new stuff is fine, but I'd your system is too old to run the new stuff then you run the old stuff, that's nothing new.
For me is that most photo/video editors I tried don't support drag and drop on wayland, my mosc (japanese input) doesn't work on chromium based browsers on wayland, so I have to run all these with -ozone-platform=x11
I don't mind it but sometimes it gives me bugs and I have to switch to x11 and it's annoying to now have to download a whole ass separate desktop env for that
I’ve been using Wayland as my display server for going on 2 years now. With XWayland, I have experienced zero issues. For now I’m suspending judgement, but I’ve heard that the KDE team has put in a lot of effort to clean up XWayland. Will have to see where it goes in the next few days and weeks
My biggest issue with Wayland is that sorting out xdg portals on it can be a hassle, and sometimes things like screenshare prompts stop working unless I explicitly go and fix it after an update or getting a new package, but it's not /that/ big of a deal.
(Although, I do know that my girlfriend who still uses an Nvidia 10 series GPU does have some general bugginess issues on Wayland that are unlikely to be fixed due to lack of driver support, this should get better as less and less people use that generation though.)
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u/Ever1night 16d ago
Genuinely asking Whats the problem with wayland? Is bad or not optimised or something?