Wayland
3 recommend 3 criticize 1 moved to it 1 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“Ever since I switched from X11 to Wayland (on GNOME) I've had the bug”wimiso, 2026-07-29original comment ↗
“Wayland is just a minimal API over the Linux kernel API for managing display buffers”gf000, 2026-01-28original comment ↗
“The tooling around Wayland and adjacent programs is way more modern and functional.”rand846633, 2026-01-05original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“Ever since I switched from X11 to Wayland (on GNOME) I've had the bug that when I'm drawing with my Wacom tablet, there's two mouse cursors”wimiso, 2026-07-29original comment ↗
“It's that Wayland's design, implementation, their attitude, and everything else about it is terrible.”orbital-decay, 2026-06-03original comment ↗
“I switched from the default Wayland back to X11 because of various bugs (hangs, stutters, resume failures), in X11 they don't happen, seems to work flawlessly.”fulafel, 2026-03-20original comment ↗
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- Wayland → X11 (1 hacker)
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