[abenga]

At some point you will have to either start building it for yourself or get someone to build it for you (when distros drop it from their repos). And that will become harder and harder as time goes by. Just recently apps I was building using Tauri stopped working on Xband forced me to switch to the Wayland Gnome session (on Debian testing) permanently. This will become more and more common, until it becomes untenable.

[gkbrk]

I doubt it will be so hard to build. Folks build X servers for Linux, Mac and Windows right now. If anything, X will probably outlive Wayland.

[abenga]

Building X is probably going to be trivial going into the future, yeah. Building and running future apps written for the Wayland will be a different beast though.

[gkbrk]

Just like there is XWayland today to make it possible to use a Wayland system with X apps, there are already similar solutions to run Wayland apps on an X system.

If you run `cage`, it will run a Wayland application in its own sandboxed window while the rest of the system runs X.

Similarly; if you run `sway` under X for example, it will start the window manager in its own window, and you can run Wayland applications inside it.