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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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I'm still using xfce; after running into problems with Wayland the three times I tried it, I decided Wayland isn't really for me. (In fairness one of those was nvidia being nvidia, but the other two are what I consider design deficiencies in Wayland itself)
Bear in mind that each desktop environment has its own implementation of Wayland, meaning each can offer vastly different user experiences. Gnome and KDE currently have the most polished and integrated Wayland compositors, and are the least likely to have any noticeable issues compared to X11, except for perhaps a few edge cases that have yet to be worked on.
Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce all still use experimental/buggy Wayland compositors, so if any of those desktop environments were the ones you experienced issues with Wayland on, I wouldn't let that color your expectations of Wayland itself.
This trips up a lot of people, you're exactly right. Wayland on KDE, especially on a more up to date distros like Fedora or a rolling distro is great.