[rantanplan]

The problem was not Fedora per se, but GNOME and especially Wayland. Wayland is slightly above vaporware and infested with bugs.

Had you chosen Fedora with KDE you'd probably have 0 problems. I'm using it without any drama for 11 years and I keep suggesting it to co-workers and friends.

Wayland has done so much harm in the Linux ecosystem and that gives me a lot of grief :(

[apareis]

It's a pity that it really is that bad. It didn't have any glitches during normal usage but it quickly fell apart when challenged, obviously. So it's probably still too early and we need more distros picking Wayland up and help stabilise.

What didn't help was probably the desire to force myself into liking GNOME, when normally, I fall naturally into the KDE camp, because it is beautiful without having to make things too simple, like GNOME does. Even though I agree with many of the things GNOME stands for, there is lots of stuff you wouldn't NEED to customise, or use.

Will consider KDE on my next attempt!

[cycloptic]

The GNOME Xorg session is still available if you need to use it.

It would be nice if it were possible to avoid the compatibility issues with Wayland, but the design of X (and the reliance of applications on X11-specific APIs) is what makes this not really feasible.

[ss2003]

Wayland is such a big pain. Breaks all kinds of things.

[vetinari]

It breaks some kinds of things, not all.

Those some things are things, you shouldn't do in the first place, like snooping on windows and events that do not belong to your app or injecting events that end up being processed by other apps.

If you don't do that, Wayland is fine.