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I do think ditching X11 is still slightly premature. For all its more modern features, there's still a lot that Wayland either hasn't implemented yet or "can't do" because of its "security model."
Can you name something that's missing? Because I can't think of anything relevant.
Use NVIDIA as primary GPU on laptops (not offload)
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-R575-Wayland-Plans
Currently you can only set NVIDIA to offload some of the rendering, but not as primary GPU like X11
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#Use_NVIDIA_graphics_only
Yeah nvidia is always a pita. But even that gets better.
Sure, Autokey doesn't work.
What's autokey?
It's roughly equivalent to AutoHotKey on Windows. It's an application that can intercept key combos or even typed strings and...do basically anything. Let's say you type a certain phrase a lot, you could come up with an abbreviation so that when you type an abbreviation it deletes the abbreviation and inserts the big thing you type. Or maybe you want it to fire when you press ALT+ y. Or, maybe you want it to do something programmatic, like insert the date and time. Or do anything you can get Python to do.
This apparently does not work on Wayland systems, something about the way it accessed keystrokes in X11 isn't open in Wayland for security concerns.
Honestly that sounds like a security nightmare and its probably a good thing that doesn't work anymore.
Honestly if pressing some buttons to get the computer to do something you programmed it to do is a "security nightmare" I think we should probably just give up, tear down the electric grid and go back to dying of smallpox at 17 like nature intended.
That's not problematic part. The reading all my inputs is.
There's software on the computer that does that anyway, otherwise the keyboard won't work. Feels like an arbitrary line to draw.
Keyboards send commands through drivers. There is no 3rd party software reading it out.
Autokey is software written by someone.
Drivers are software written by someone.
Have you vetted every line of code running on your computer?
Not sure if you understand threat models.
Condescend further to me. Explain it to me like I'm a woman.
I don't know autokey, so I can't speak to whether they replace all its functionality but there are 'xdotool-like' programs for Wayland. So it is at least very possible to replace functionality like the latter you mentioned (press button/button combination -> do an action, like inserting date/start a program/do something programmatic). Some examples I know are:
ydotool is a perfect replacement for dmenu based password managers.
I"ve been experimenting with both Cosmos and XFCE Wayland.
Color pickers, screenshot, and window recording/streaming all don't seem to work or require Wayland-only packages that are extremely primitive in features and use.
Alt+tabbing out of games, whether fullscreen or windowed, also doesn't seem to work.
Wallpapers and cursors installed to the standard location where the distro installs all of them don't seem to be usable. I have to manually copy them to somewhere in the home directory in order to use them.
Screensavers seem to be unusable except for one port of xscreensavers.
I know OpenSUSE plans to eliminate x11, so I'm trying to get used to Wayland, but I do hope it's more developed before I have to use it full time.
So the only Wayland implementations you've tried are ones in Alpha or Beta?
Tbh that seems like an unfair comparison. You're comparing alpha and beta software to production-ready software, and complaining about it not being as stable.
Wayland is a lot more mature on Gnome or Plasma. I started using Wayland on Gnome in 2019, and aside from when I briefly tested with an Nvidia card a number of years ago, the only issue I've ever had was screen sharing on discord, which was 'Discord are pathologically against updating their electron version' issue, not a Wayland issue.
tbf, aren't both of those still in early stages? I don't think I've had any issues with those on KDE wayland
Do we have a widely adopted aolution yet for screensharing, global shortcuts, and window position restoration?
Screen sharing under gnome and KDE just works. Even in sway that's solved for quite a while now. I would call that widely adopted. I haven't encountered the other two as problems yet. Global shortcuts work in my sway session. I would expect nothing else from gnome and KDE. Window position restoration is also a standard feature in sway AFAIK. Not sure if gnome or KDE do it.
Perhaps I should take another look now that the ecosystem has had time to mature...
Try the big ones. Gnome or KDE just works.
I use Plasma on my server, but I don't use my server's UI very often
Why does your server need a UI?