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by pantalaimon 1691 days ago
There are a lot of smaller projects that lack the resources for the Wayland transition.

I'm a happy Mate user and while there is ongoing work to move towards Wayland, it will likely take several years to complete.

So for the time being I keep X11 dear to my heart, and to be honest I'm not sure what I'm missing with Wayland (expert apparently problems with screen sharing applications that have not been updated to Wayland yet …). X11 + Compiz work fine for me.

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I think most smaller project will transition automatically once their widget toolkit is ported. For the cases where this does not happens, xwayland is working well enough.
I wasn't aware that MATE was still on X; that's good info to know.