Wayland. It’s super smooth and supports new display features.
Everything works, but I don’t really use global keyboard shortcuts.
Wayland is the future. X11’s future is dead. Unfortunately there are still some growing pains. Xwayland mostly works but I have issues with it sometimes.
Wayland for better multimonitor support, scaling, and tear-free rendering.
X11 because i3wm
Honest question: what does i3wm that swaywm doesn’t?
Honestly, I never heard of it before, so I checked to see what it is. I wrote a pretty neat config for my i3wm and to this day am so comfortable with it that I would never change it.
From my understanding after a look, it is pretty much i3wm for Wayland. If my config works well with it, I might give it a shot.
Wayland. No screen tearing and it doubled my battery life.
X11 for X11Forwarding over SSH.
Wayland because I want something actively maintained and progressive.
I don’t think that’s a feature many people actually needed, something like accessability is peobably a better argument but I agree with the fundamental statment
Don’t tell me I don’t need it, I use it every day to run apps not yet available on arm from another system. I’ve used it for years at work, as well. Just because it’s for something other than fricking gamer’s doesn’t mean it is not needed.
X11 for xdotool. ydotool doesn’t support (& can’t really support with it’s current architecture) retrieving information like the current mouse location, current window, window dimensions & titles. Also, normal (unprivileged) user ydotool use requires udev rules or session scripts and/or running a ydotool daemon & many distros don’t yet ship with this Just Working.
X11 for Alt-F2
rto restart Gnome Shell without ending the whole session. This is a useful workaround for a variety of Gnome bugs.X11 because Discord is unusable for me on Wayland, and I use it every day.
Edit: I recently switched to a 7800 XT (was using a 3080), and the discord problem was either solved since the last time I tried it, or not being on nvidia helps - no more weird input lag etc. in discord, so I’ve moved over to Wayland finally.
If you have got a Nvidia video card and you want to use it, use X11. Other than that use Wayland unless you encounter any bug or incompatibility.
Wayland is more modern and actively receives updates and features.
Don’t bother choosing. Use whatever the distro gives you until you actually have a reason to switch
Wayland all the way, 120 hz Freesync monitor with 60 hz second monitor works perfectly on KDE Plasma with AMD. No fussing about with X11 configs or worrying about if the compositor is active or not, it just works.
Whichever works best for you. I would recommend Wayland to anyone, but if you run into any problems with it (either bugs with your compositor or protocol limitations), then just use X11.
x11 cuz xfce also … i want a just working system^^
Wayland because X is owned by Elon Musk
Wayland just feels more polished and clean.
