Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland

Worth pointing out that for the longest time, Firefox on Wayland was borking the clipboards regularly, forcing a restart of the whole stack (at least on Gnome).<p>That pushed a lot of people to use the X versin of firefox, even if on Wayland.<p>It seems to be fixed for me now but eh... who knows

I really hope wayland doesn&#x27;t become to x11 what IPV6 is to ipv4.<p>Because after so many years, a lot of the ecosystem hasn&#x27;t moved, or is even not compatible with it. Good multi display support is missing, and some games don&#x27;t render well.<p>I want it to succeed, and the project has been progressing non-stop, but it does show how much time and energy such an endeavor takes. I was expecting to be able to use it for years and years.<p>See also: BTRFS

Doesn&#x27;t the graph show the opposite? According to the legend the green shows Wayland which is by far the biggest area?<p>Have I forgotten how to read graphs?<p>Edit: Graph starts at 90%, oh how I hate when they do that.

Wayland still doesn&#x27;t handle fractional scaling as well as x11 (at least for my laptop) and the text blurriness with fractional scaling is really a show stopper. X11 just works though. Hopefully they will iron out the last of the bugs and this 10 year project will finally achieve its potential.

I will run Wayland when it is built into Linux Mint. When they have fixed screenshots and color pickers and network transparency and any other hidden things I don&#x27;t know about.

I always ran wayland (since I got &quot;Ubuntu on Wayland&quot; at the login available), but now my son wants to play minecraft with me so I have to use X. It&#x27;s just this 1 thing that keeps me off it now. I imaging what the &quot;Why Wayland? Will at some point flip to &quot;Why not Wayland?&quot; When really (almost) everything works.

I found no suitable replacement for demnu&#x2F;j4-menu on Wayland, so I stick to using Gnome on X. It&#x27;s that simple.<p>I don&#x27;t know much about window servers and have no idea why I should use Wayland instead of X.

It&#x27;s notable that Firefox performance is <i>a lot better</i> on Wayland. Depending on the compositor of course.<p>Which leads to a big misconception that many users have, even here on Hackernews.<p>&quot;Wayland doesn&#x27;t support Y&quot; or &quot;Z doesn&#x27;t work on Wayland&quot; statements only make very limited sense.<p>Wayland is just a protocol. Unlike X, there is no shared codebase that is used by all implementations - aka compositors.<p>There are several important compositors, all with their own individual quirks. Which is part of the problem...

Why should a Linux user care whether the display uses X11 or Wayland?<p>Is there a summary somewhere that explains why, or if, it would benefit me to put any effort into switching?

The caveats given are pretty major. Anyone know which distributions disable telemetry and whether they default to X11 or Wayland?

I&#x27;m not sure what do the number mean.<p>Percentage of users running Firefox using Wayland WM&#x2F;DE or percentage of users running Firefox with enabled Wayland support?<p>These numbers in theory could be dramatically different, as Firefox with enabled Wayland is not a default yet.

I was not able to share screen on Wayland so had to switch to X.

Sway &amp; Firefox-wl work pretty great on nixos

My FF-related reason for using X11 that drag&amp;drop from FF to Nemo doesn&#x27;t work under sway but does work under i3. Trying several combinations of environment variables to switch between native and xwayland mode didn&#x27;t make a difference.<p>The second reason, not related to FF, is that wine-wayland is still experimental.

The developer channel version of WSL2 comes with Wayland, which might help push adoption a bit. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;wslg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;wslg</a>

Be aware that some other unixes are often corned as Linux.<p>I use Firefox on FreeBSD and most third party websites identify me as Linux (except Firefox itself). I can&#x27;t run Wayland because KDE on Wayland is currently broken on FreeBSD :)

It is like windoz, the default install on nearly all sold PCs: because x11 is the default for firefox on mainstream distros.<p>What to do: eat the bullet and change the default of the mainstream distros.

Wayland is the new IPv6

By the way, assuming I&#x27;m running Wayland - anyone maybe knows a way for me to check if any of the apps I have&#x2F;run are using X11?

Unity 8 and MIR died for this...