I'm getting increasingly frustrated with Wayland. I cannot share my screen with Zoom. I cannot use applications like gcolor2. It is often that I find an application just does not work with Wayland and I have no idea how to troubleshoot.

I know a lot of people complain about Linux being much more complicated to use, but my experience for the last ten years is that Linux almost always works better than Windows and OSX for the basic 90% of things. But, Wayland has changed that for me entirely, now it feels like 50% does not work.

For me the most frustrating thing about Wayland is that with Wayland a crash anywhere in the stack means I lose all my work. I really like the fact that under X I can simply restart my DE after a crash to get a working desktop back and the open apps are unaffected, this saved me so many times. I tried Wayland for a while, but after losing all my work twice to crashes I came back running to X.

badsectoracula

I love X, etc and use it all the time, but let's be honest, X isn't exactly rock solid either. I had X crash due to video mode switches (mainly via games) so many times that nowadays unless i know a game behaves nicely, i tend to first run it under gamescope[0] which shields against these issues. I do find it kinda amusing that my only use for Wayland so far has been to avoid driver issues by running a compositor inside an X window :-P

[0] https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope - it is a fork of Valve's wayland compositor which actually works under X11 inside a window and effectively creates a nested XWayland environment but also attempts to minimize latency... it doesn't eliminate it completely but outside of twitchy shooters it is ok