Guilty as charged

Protip: People who have iGPU + nvidia can just set the iGPU as main GPU on the BIOS and offload 3D programs to the nvidia via prime-run like they would on a laptop.

That's my setup.

The latest Nvidia drivers have broken composition in Xfce, so I've been raw-dogging basic X11. It's like I'm using WinXP again.

And the network transparency argument is long gone. While you can indeed network windows over the wire, most toolkits use client side rendering/decorations. So you're just sending bloated pixmaps across the wire when things like RDP , VNC, etc deal better with compression, damage to the window, etc. And anything relying or accelerated with DRI3 is just NOT network transparent.

Most modern toolkits have moved past X11 because the X protocol was severely lacking, and there wasn't a good way as a committee to modify the protocol in an unified manner. I mean look at the entire moving Earth that it took for XFixes and Damage extensions. Toolkits wanted deep access to the underlying hardware and so they would go out of their way to work around X, because it just could not keep up.

Plenty life in X11 yet.

Xlibre running around.

Pheonix on the horizon. (Zig!)

There's probably a lot of people on 'stable' distros who are still running Wayland code from a couple of years ago and hitting bugs that have been fixed already.

Screen sharing of rustdesk on hyperfland/sway or others similars de are mess, things simply doesn't work, drag and drop between virtual box and host system is mess once it works once it not

The software you use working correctly is kind of a big deal, though.

The overwhelming majority of systems consist of one monitor. For the minority on two monitors the overwhelming majority have 2 low DPI monitors or 2 high DPI monitors.

For those with mixed DPI screens only recently has any system supported scaling xwayland apps appropriately on such setups meaning some apps look like garbage and they still do on gnome. xrandr --scale to scale per screen has worked since 2003 and per screen fractional scaling works on Cinanamon under X right now.

To revise

90% of everyone

Single screen: Wayland == X Multiple similar DPI Wayland == X

5%

Mixed DPI with a mix of Wayland on X apps on every desktop but KDE X > Wayland

5%

Mixed DPI with a mix of wayland and X apps on KDE Wayland > X Mixed DPI with only wayland apps Wayland > X

I wonder why something that is only better for 5% and worse for 5% and requires 100% to deal with bugs missing features and growing pains has negative feelings attached!

Wayland is like how windows people say Linux is.

It works and is Incredible, but on X11 things just work.

KDE on Wayland has only very recently started to become workable for me, before that it was utter crap as I switch between home and office with my laptop, with varying display setups. In that case you got stuff like screen positions not being remembered and applications consistently starting off screen, requiring gymnastics to coax them onto a display.

And regularly it would crap out and not show output to one of the displays, if you opened up display manager you'd see the displays not touching and a big red error telling you that gaps betweens displays aren't supported. Well here's a brilliant idea, how about not automatically putting a gap between them in that case?

As I said, last few months it works better (although I still encounter some issues from time to time that I never had on X11). But the whole Wayland protocol had such a rough start, with issues encountered often being downplayed by parts of the community because "it's better and we don't want to hear otherwise", that I simply cannot feel any love for it anymore. There was too much basic stuff that took too long to support, while people were shouting "but HDR!", "better code!". I don't fucking care, I just want to be able to work and for too long that required X11.

Edit: some typo's and improved readability.

On my old nvidia laptop with Endeavouros i have some minor lag from time to time, nothing too crazy. But there are a couple of things i can't make work. For start i can't lower the gamma with xrandr, wlr-randr should work but my nvidia give me the middle finger. Secondly i can't, for the love of me, find a decent onscreen keyboard app to use. I can technically enable the touchscreen keyboard in my desktop adding KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 but is just too bothersome to have it pop-out everywhere. Also, while most of the app-images works, last time i've tried running this one https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer it crashed 9 times out of 10. All of this works just fine on x11.

You'll only see when you open your xeyes.

Wouldn't that be a matter for your window manager?

I feel like a lot of people tried Wayland in 2020, a bunch of things didn't work and they've been permanently traumatised.

I switched my laptop years ago, but my desktop only fairly recently - multi screen, mixed DPI with variable refresh rates for gaming took longer to be ready than my laptop's single screen, normal DPI, fixed refresh rate config.

My window manager (Am using awesome rn)

X was broken as fuck and held together by duct tape and zip ties, as long as no one looked at it wrong.

X is broken in many different ways. It has a huge codebase made to support a poor design that was optimized for machines 40 years ago. No one wants to touch the code base since it is so incredibly fragile plus the original developers are much older now.

In all fairness, it did work for way longer than anyone expected. I doubt the original designers of the X protocol anticipated it lasting this long.