The benefits of Wayland are: - Much better graphical stack (no more tearing, weird graphical glitches, fractional scaling support without blurring for Wayland n

The benefits of Wayland are: - Much better graphical stack (no more tearing, weird graphical glitches, fractional scaling support without blurring for Wayland native apps) - Much improved security (on x11, any app has access to all your input, your clipboard and everything that is displayed, all the time), on Wayland an app only know about it's own buffer, its own clipboard and has input access when focused). Not a plus or downside but interesting thing is that the ecosystem growing around Wayland is harmonizing the desktop environments (finally!)like pipewire now replacing pulse-audio, jack and alsa together or xdg-desktop portal allowing to use the file picker of your environment rather than the one from the library an app is built with (for example, kwrite on gnome would use the gnome file picker). The downsides of Wayland are: - A few apps are not playing nicely, like Zoom - Nvidia support is finally getting better, but from what I can read it's not totally smooth yet. - KDE is more stable on X11 than Wayland from what I read. but they are focusing on Wayland this year. - It changed a LOT recently, more conservative distro based on LTS or releases that are a few major version behind like Debian will carry issues that have been fixed since. - Some tools relying on x11 specific functionalities might not work, it can be necessary to spend a bit of time to find some alternatives. The way I see it, if your distribution default to x11, stick with it. If it isn't, it's worth a try