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by webkike 982 days ago
I understand the reasoning here, and frankly supported. I've been using X11 while having an available Wayland session because some applications are subtly broken on Wayland - discord has weird text input issues, same thing with Emacs, and Wezterm just flat out doesn't work on Wayland with Nvidia GPUs. However, the slow breakage I've seen with X11 has caused me to start migrating. To explain, every now and then on X11 my screen will simply go black for a couple of seconds. It happens often enough where I'm no longer willing to accept in. And so thus I've moved to Wayland. And frankly, with a little bit of effort, I've found work-arounds for all of my issues - Wezterm works if you disable wayland, Emacs 29 works fine, and Discord is acceptable in the browser. And thus, I think that disabling X11 is a good idea because finally it would force people to actually make things work well under wayland, instead of being able to rely on X11 as a fallback.