As a newly converted Fedora user, has this x11 been an issue or is this simply an aesthetics/preference thing?
No. X11 has been around since 1980's and it's basicly a puzzle of chewing gums glued together. It's not been in development for years now.
Wayland is much less code but the end result is still much better. Wayland is the future.
In case you didn't know, they're display compositors. Backends of the graphics.
I'm on fedora and Wayland kde breaks so often it's unusable
This has not been my experience at all. A few crashes in a year or so of use. Apparently experiences vary.
My current KDE Wayland exp is also no great, but I have an older Nvidia GPU too.
Unfortunately it's not really all that great on newer Nvidia GPUs either.
Can you explain what "breaks" you are experiencing?
I'm running Fedora/KDE/Wayland on two machines here, and the only oddity I get regularly is on my system with one monitor in landscape and one in portrait. Sometimes half of the landscape screen seems to be funky until I turn the portrait monitor off and on again (almost like it is trying to put the two displays on one for some reason). Most everything else has been flawless.
My kde wayland with amd graphics has been perfectly stable.
I'm unfortunately stuck on Nvidia until I can find a swap for my 2070s
Future yes.
Present no.What makes you say that? I've been using Wayland for a few years now with 0 issues.
The only thing I miss and switch to Xorg for is screen sharing in video calls.
screenshare works on Wayland though?
Screen sharing works fine under GNOME, haven't tried with another DE/WM.
Not in Gnome on Wayland it doesn't. I had to knock it back down to Xorg.
I meant on Wayland. It works on my computer^^TM under Firefox, Chromium and electron apps.
Yes. Screensharing on Gnome on Wayland on Debian on Linux on GNU on AMD on my laptop's motherboard on my desk did not work for me.
Now do cinnamon!
I wish. Even xfce will get wayland support before they do.
