Just a personal anecdote here. I use Wayland and Pipewire on Slackware 15 which is in absolutely zero sense a cutting edge distribution. While I do have a newer

Just a personal anecdote here. I use Wayland and Pipewire on Slackware 15 which is in absolutely zero sense a cutting edge distribution. While I do have a newer kernel (6.6) than what ships in Slackware, I haven't really modified any other underlying components. KDE Plasma is running great. My audio is the best I've ever experienced, and Wayland (using the "full Wayland" session) is wonderful. It's highly responsive, and very stable in my usage of it. Now, regarding screen recording, I tested with Pulse and with Pipewire, and suprise surprise, it works with Pipewire enabled and running. The mesa issue mentioned is a thing. My performance in gaming did go down slightly by switching to Wayland, but I am also using libraries that are a few versions behind as I run Slackware 15. For reference, my machine is Ryzen + Radeon, so I cannot speak to any issues with NVIDIA. My wife uses Intel + ARC with the same software stack and she too has zero issues. My son, otoh, runs Windows 10 and has rather frequent issues every single time there's a Windows update. His machine is Intel + NVIDIA 3070 FE. One household's experience doesn't reflect the state of the industry, but in the Linux-forum-guy tradition: "it works for me"