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by vially 1925 days ago
> and I haven’t heard anyone singing it’s praises yet about how happy they are to use it

As is often the case, people are much quicker to go to forums to complain about issues than to sing praises so I'm here to add a data-point trying to balance the scale.

I've been using Wayland for a few years now and it does everything I need it to do. I understand that everyone has different needs and maybe it doesn't work for everyone, but then again, neither did X11.

Some of the things that work out of the box in Wayland which didn't work in X11:

- proper HiDPI and mixed DPI support (e.g.: you can finally move windows from one screen to another in mixed DPI setups and everything scales properly)

- variable refresh rates/FreeSync (for all apps and all screens)

- no more tearing

- no more hot-plugging issues