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by Seirdy 1689 days ago
> hey, you lose copy-paste, screenshots, xdotool and most of the apps you used before.

Wayland has had working screenshots, screen recording, clipboard functionality for text and arbitrary mimetypes, etc. for years on wlroots, GNOME, and KWin. It also has ydotool, an xdotool alternative. For pure keyboard automation it also sports wtype.

Which apps don't support Wayland? The only ones on my machine that need XWayland are some video games and FLTK apps like Dillo (I have to test with xwininfo since it's normally impossible for me to notice if a program is using XWayland). All GTK/Qt apps work OOTB on Wayland as a first class citizen, especially since those toolkits nowadays receive more Wayland testing than X11 since barely any current distros still ship X in their default installations.

Which Wayland compositor/version and GUI toolkit/library gave you blurry bilinear filters?

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> barely any current distros still ship X in their default installations.

Bold statement. Citation needed? Debian does, and that's hardly a small percentage of market share. I guess if you include Android as a Linux distribution then you might be correct.

Debian 10, Debian 11, OpenSUSE, Fedora, RHEL 8, Ubuntu, and others ship GNOME on Wayland by default right now. It receives better support than the X version.

KDE upstream is also Wayland by default which is reflected in the KDE version of OpenSUSE, the Fedora KDE spin, and Fedora Kinoite.

No, Android's doing its own thing, not X11 or Wayland.