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by arp242 1135 days ago
I have a bunch of tools that work only on X and don't have clear Wayland equivalent, so I will have to write it. Thus far I couldn't be bothered. I will only have to find "alternative to [..]" for a number of things, and I couldn't be bothered with that either thus far.

If not wanting to spend hours and hours of work replacing a set of tools that work very well for me with another set of tools with identical functionality makes me a "Linux zealot that hates any sort of change" then I will gladly accept that description.

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Which tools?
xbanish, xcape, xdotool, find-cursor, xclip, dmenu, my somewhat specific hacked-up version of dwm, various specific configurations in X.

Some of these have alternatives that work the way I want, some don't. In either case I will have to spend time replicating the environment I've been happy with for many years by finding and configuring existing tools or by writing my own, all for no concrete benefit.

Eventually I'll have to bite the bullet I suppose, but Xorg works well today and I expect it will continue to work well for quite a few more years. As long as it's not needed, I'd rather spend my time elsewhere.

Some of those indeed have alternatives already, but okay it seems you're already aware of them.
Barrier, the Synergy replacement.

Apparently Wayland's architecture makes it an actual hard problem. It's the one tool I rely on daily that is stopping me from trying Wayland.

Synergy seems to have wayland support on its recent beta release.
A paid proprietary program is not a replacement for a libre+gratis program.
For me, not a tool but a WM: AwesomeWM