TLDR: XFCE and Cinnamon devs are begging beginning to work on Wayland support.
As a Debian XFCE user, I will gladly switch to Wayland when it is available.
Good. X11 has not been properly maintained and shouldn’t be the default for any distro. (Xorg, whatever.)
I feel like talk about Wayland being the next big thing, “coming soon” began back when I was using Linux as my daily driver over ten years ago.
It’s still not widely used?
It’s the default in most big distros, so it is widely used.
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Not sure if that’ll stay much longer, either. I’m using using dual graphics with nVidia and Wayland on KDE works just fine. The only annoyance is that KDE doesn’t have very good touchpad gestures by default, but you also can’t modify them. Boo!
It’s extremely widely used. It’s been the Gnome default (unless you used Nvidia) since 2016 or something.
Even in Debian on Gnome it’s been the default since 2019.
On KDE a bunch of distros use it too.
Wayland is the future. But for most it’s already the present too.
I’ve been using Wayland for about 8 years at this point. Some people (especially in the Linux world) are just really against change.
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It’s a very slow moving project by design for better or for worse. There also hasn’t been a ton of developer interest in the DE space in supporting it until the last few years since it would necessarily take resources away from other work, and generally X has been “good enough” until recently. I don’t have anything to back this up but I suspect that the increased accessibility of gaming on Linux as well as HRR and HDR displays entering the mainstream had a lot to do with this renewed interest.
