[CoffeeDregs]

Just in case someone RTFA and gets worried: this is breathless FUD and could be handled much more usefully in some other fashion that invites discussion of pros/cons (such as is happening on HN but I doubt the gist will be updated...). Wayland is an 0.99:1.00 replacement for x11. I would appreciate a succinct "Wayland changed X, Y and Z and that will affect applications A, B, C" but TFA isn't that.

Much like systemd, Wayland sounded as though it might have some serious wrinkles but those, as with systemd, never really materialized for me (a power user on a powerful machine). Most issues I experienced were transient as applications caught up with the switch (mostly screen sharing). Even though it's not too important to me, games (wine and native) are working better than ever on Linux (and Wayland).

I think the two persistent "issues" I've seen are: graphical ssh (X-over-ssh); and, maybe, others screen drawing on my screen in Slack calls.

I trust the arguments from the x11/Wayland developers and, AFAICT, Wayland has been a Good Thing but some eggs were broken to make the omelette...