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not my experience - I switched a year ago and have yet to notice anything not working. X backers rant about things all the time but realistically for most wayland just works. the example - xkill - is something that should be killed on X since it is a big security issue. there are also a number of cases where X does not work and cannot because of design issuses, but I have never encountered them either.

which is to say try it for yourself - odds it works and you won't have to worry.

I will switch soon, just need to collect all stuff and find time. Waited a bit for nvidia drivers to catch on as I want some models to run locally.

99% of the time when I'm using Linux, it's just over SSH. The rare times I've used the GUI, X has seemed really clunky. I have no idea why technically, but clearly the status quo wasn't working.

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