What’s the difference for a real user between using X11 or Wayland nowdays? I haven’t found anything useful on the internet, so I’m asking you. Internet articles on the topic (and about WMs too) seem to be advertising slop since they explain anything but the real things. Also, if anyone used the XLibre fork, I would love to hear about your experience with it.

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    There are still things that work on X11 that don’t work on Wayland but Wayland has more security, more features and is actually being developed now.

    Pick your distros default, if something graphical doesn’t work switching might do the trick.

    Common issues with wayland are mostly related to screen sharing or lower level thingies like programmatically pressing the mouse.

    Common issues with X11 is VRR, HDR, fractional scaling and multi monitor configuration.