2 year wayland (sway) user here. Every time anything is posted here about wayland, I read about some people's crazy issues. Karma brings them all out of the woo

2 year wayland (sway) user here. Every time anything is posted here about wayland, I read about some people's crazy issues. Karma brings them all out of the woodwork, I guess. If message boards like HN are where you're getting this impression, just beware of sample bias. Remember that everyone on Fedora and/or KDE has been running wayland for literal years. That is a lot of users, and not enough complaints to make them consider reverting. Fwiw here's my counter anecdata: I'm on arch with swaywm, meaning my system is in no way "out of the box". I have gone back to X from time to time, and... it drives me crazy. Everything is blurry, it takes an hour off my battery time, and it FEELS laggy and unresponsive. Oh, and the experience of installing anything involves 5 extra packages (automatically included, at least) to work around X stuff. God help you if you want to configure an input method; it goes through AT LEAST 2 layers. For some input methods (touchscreens, i'm looking at you), you have brittle hacks like one layer is just reading the debug log of another. Anyway every settings change you make requires restarting your whole WM, and probably fiddling with several 3rd party tools to understand and make it easier... no thanks. Even when I could only screen share between xwayland apps, and I really tried to go back, I couldn't stomach it. The wayland experience for me is just so much better across so many dimensions. I can only imagine what it's like for my friends who use OOTB setups and aren't even aware they're on Wayland.