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by lousken 225 days ago
Wayland is still years away from usable state. You still can't even autotype keepassxc passwords and there are still no good solutions for remote desktop sessions (at least I have not found any last time i checked)
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> Wayland is still years away from usable state

… for you, surely. I’m sure there are some wayland users.

> autotype keepassxc passwords

What is that?

> remote desktop sessions

IIRC, gnome comes with an ootb RDP solution that, last I tried, worked as advertised. I’m not a big remote user though.

> What is that?

I believe they refer to KeePassXC's autofill feature, which autotypes credentials into other applications. I've never used this in X and won't use it on Wayland, as I prefer to keep all applications isolated.

I Ctrl-C to copy and then manually paste the password. Wayland is better for this method because I know the clipboard is cleared once I close KeePassXC.

That's nice, if you don't have to always copy both the username and password or if you don't have custom autotype set up. Also I disagree, if I do not trust my password manager, I should not be using it at all.
Those are fair criticisms, but neither one of them is a dealbreaker for any OS that I use on a regular basis. As such, most Wayland sessions are perfectly usable to me.
I am saying that, because it is a dealbreaker for me, as I have to login tens of times every day across different companies. Wish Yubikey and webauthn was implemented by everyone already
Perhap Claude, Gemini, and Codex will finally make things come along sooner than later
rustdesk supports wayland