I tried for a while to get Wayland working in order to get rid of tearing I saw in X Windows, until I found out a kernel module parameter for the Nvidia driver fixed tearing in X. I run xmonad as well, which doesn't work with wayland. Don't see any reason to run Wayland at the moment.
This is a recurring pattern I keep seeing come up again and again with open source / Linux. I still don’t see any real benefits to switching to Wayland as a user other than it being a Shiny New Thing. In fact, this is a net negative for me.<p>When I previously tried Wayland, my DE wasn’t compatible and most of my software had to be run through their XWindows compatibility layer and required myriad workarounds and tuning just to get a basic desktop environment running. This NVIDIA hack is yet another example.<p>It still felt like alpha quality software even though it has been in development for 10 years(!) now. Why would users ever not stick with something that is stable and just works?