The main thing that has me cheering Wayland on is that it seems like the only, really viable, path forward for the Linux desktop environment. The developers of

The main thing that has me cheering Wayland on is that it seems like the only, really viable, path forward for the Linux desktop environment. The developers of X11, and more or less the rest of the Linux community, decided that X11 wasn’t the best path to take into the future. So X11 is treated like a legacy technology. It will keep getting patched and will be supported for the foreseeable future but it’s hard to see anyone wanting to invest a lot of effort innovating and moving the tech forward when everyone agrees there’s no future in it. I’m not aware of any frameworks that are really competing with Wayland for the next generation. There will be stumbling blocks as with any new technology, especially one that interrelates with so many systems but Waylands core architecture seems to be solid. Personally, I’m still using I3 and don’t see many immediate benefits to switching over to Sway (the Wayland fork of I3). I am cheering Wayland on though and making the switch is somewhere on my todo list. What other path forward is there for desktop Linux?