I'm using Wayland exclusively for 4 years now on Archlinux (may be more, I forget). At this point, it is better than X11. It still has bugs, but then so does X11.

Fractional scaling is fixed in Plasma 6 though. So, if you need that, it has been good for 1 year now.

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skeezyboy 3 days ago | parent [-]

i dont want to call linux old fashioned but to still be working the kinks out of windowing system in 2025 boggles me... its almost as if there's a resistance to GUIs or something.

	▲	const_cast 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The window manager in windows is horribly buggy and extremely slow. Lots of animation flickering and snapping for seemingly no reason. Try maximizing Firefox while a video is playing and watch the animation - or, usually, lack thereof. Wayland is, by far, the best windowing system I've ever used. No dropped frames, ever. Its actually kind of uncanny, it feels like you're using an iPhone.
	▲	triknomeister 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		GUIs are tough in open source because they need way more than just code. You need UX designers, testers, feedback loops, and infrastructure — stuff most volunteer projects can’t sustain. That’s why devs can dogfood CLI tools but GUIs are a whole different beast. Even Windows and macOS struggle with this — just look at how messy fractional scaling is [link](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221025-00/?p=10...). And yet, Linux/KDE has been pushing GUI innovation for decades. Apple and Microsoft have copied so many KDE features it’s hard to keep track.