Guilty as charged

Protip: People who have iGPU + nvidia can just set the iGPU as main GPU on the BIOS and offload 3D programs to the nvidia via prime-run like they would on a laptop.

That's my setup.

The latest Nvidia drivers have broken composition in Xfce, so I've been raw-dogging basic X11. It's like I'm using WinXP again.

And the network transparency argument is long gone. While you can indeed network windows over the wire, most toolkits use client side rendering/decorations. So you're just sending bloated pixmaps across the wire when things like RDP , VNC, etc deal better with compression, damage to the window, etc. And anything relying or accelerated with DRI3 is just NOT network transparent.

Most modern toolkits have moved past X11 because the X protocol was severely lacking, and there wasn't a good way as a committee to modify the protocol in an unified manner. I mean look at the entire moving Earth that it took for XFixes and Damage extensions. Toolkits wanted deep access to the underlying hardware and so they would go out of their way to work around X, because it just could not keep up.

There's probably a lot of people on 'stable' distros who are still running Wayland code from a couple of years ago and hitting bugs that have been fixed already.

Screen sharing of rustdesk on hyperfland/sway or others similars de are mess, things simply doesn't work, drag and drop between virtual box and host system is mess once it works once it not

KDE on Wayland has only very recently started to become workable for me, before that it was utter crap as I switch between home and office with my laptop, with varying display setups. In that case you got stuff like screen positions not being remembered and applications consistently starting off screen, requiring gymnastics to coax them onto a display.

And regularly it would crap out and not show output to one of the displays, if you opened up display manager you'd see the displays not touching and a big red error telling you that gaps betweens displays aren't supported. Well here's a brilliant idea, how about not automatically putting a gap between them in that case?

As I said, last few months it works better (although I still encounter some issues from time to time that I never had on X11). But the whole Wayland protocol had such a rough start, with issues encountered often being downplayed by parts of the community because "it's better and we don't want to hear otherwise", that I simply cannot feel any love for it anymore. There was too much basic stuff that took too long to support, while people were shouting "but HDR!", "better code!". I don't fucking care, I just want to be able to work and for too long that required X11.

Edit: some typo's and improved readability.

The software you use working correctly is kind of a big deal, though.

Wayland is 18 years old. From 2015 on people whose entire computer use was a browser and a terminal on their single screen laptop with intel integrated GPU were telling everyone else they needed to change over because X was already practically dead and wayland was ready for prime time.

Meanwhile even on the latest and greatest everything wayland still has at that point many problems, many limitations, and is from the perspective of many users not better in any way whatsoever and in many ways worse. Continue this for 11 years. By the time everything is ready for prime time you've already primed people to reject and dislike you.

Some people just can't find a better hill to die on it seems.

People like x11 because Nvidia hasn't fucked up support for it, and people like Wayland because it is the newer protocol that everything is gonna move to.

Wayland provides a simplified, streamlined pipeline for graphics. Lower latency, higher frame rates, less overhead. X is straight out of the late 80s and 90s. Modern X has been cobbled together to work surprisingly well. But that old architecture is what is holding it back today.

I feel like a lot of people tried Wayland in 2020, a bunch of things didn't work and they've been permanently traumatised.

I switched my laptop years ago, but my desktop only fairly recently - multi screen, mixed DPI with variable refresh rates for gaming took longer to be ready than my laptop's single screen, normal DPI, fixed refresh rate config.

My window manager (Am using awesome rn)

Wouldn't that be a matter for your window manager?