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by petepete 1206 days ago
Not sure it's fair to call it struggling when it's the default in just about every distro and has been smooth and stable for years.
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I think it's fair, since every one of those distros ships an X11 fallback. I desperately want Wayland to succeed but exaggerating its current wins won't get us there.

I don't want this post to focus on the negative, though, so I'll suggest a more positive argument: the people who would have been responsible for a hypothetical X12 instead decided to make Wayland. I can't think of a body of experts more likely to make a correct decision, so I have confidence in Wayland as the path forward.

I mean, before Wayland every distro shipped with a text console as a fallback to X11
Fair. I'll admit there are a few rough edges, mainly caused by some apps (Slack) having older versions of certain libraries that makes some functionality (like screen sharing) break.
Shipping a fallback doesn’t mean the alternative is not in daily use.