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Calling x11 well supported at this point is like calling a 1977 Pontiac firebird trans Am. Well supported
It’s liked, there’s lots of information about it. But any real support died for fucking ever again. And the only people claiming otherwise have their heads buried deep in the sand.
Even calling it stable has a lot of ifs to it at this point. If your on a old system, only doing basic things, with a well trodden and documented track record. Then yeah it’s more solid then a block of solid rock.
But half the reason it’s “stable” is because it’s a duct taped mess that is basically a bat shit insane house of cards one bad day from falling apart.
But we know every fault, trick, and piece of duct tape. So the chance of it falling apart is almost zero.
Waylands problem tends to be it just refuses to hurry the fuck up and actually get any real work done. But what does get done tends to get done more right then x11 and quickly fixed up as issues come up.
So long as the gnome team shuts the fuck up and doesn’t interject. If they do then all bets are off.
I think the main stability issues that people encounter with Wayland are because of one of two reasons:
The main security features people get hung up on are: