Sounds like GNOME pisses you off. Try a window manager/compositor that is not designed by lunatics who think the OK/Cancel buttons should be at the top of the window when everything else reads left-to-right/top-to-bottom, and that every application should provide its own window decorations so every application looks wildly different. Maybe you would prefer https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

Also, X11 is decades of half-baked garbage hacks piled on top of half-baked garbage. Wayland fixes real problems.

I decided to try Wayland a year or so ago. I never used X11 again. I use hyprland and niri with no issues

Not sure what you mean. Been running Wayland for years with little to no problems. No desktop environment though

report the bugs so they can be fixed.

I use mint. I think Wayland is available, but I’ve just never switched to it. And to be honest, I’m not even sure if Wayland is actually available on mint. My point is this I don’t think anybody is forcing anybody to switch? Or any other distro’s actually forcing it

breaks constantly

What do you mean by this?
I don't think I've ever had an entire desktop environment break.

I am SO with you! Wayland is just not feature complete at all and everyone is acting like it is.

I just updated my steamdeck to the most recent version which switched to wayland by default and guess what? Remote play was busted in desktop mode, which I use all the time, awesome. Thankfully they still let you switch back to X11 for desktop mode.

OBS window capture does not work for certain window types in wayland, I tried every method available, this bit me to so hard to had to do an emergency rollback to an out of life version of an OS on my OBS machine because it was a majorly breaking change.

You can't ssh in and run something on the desktop, like I tried to ssh into my desktop and start moonlight (because there are no good remote desktop solutions still) but apparently there is NO WAY AT ALL to run something as my user, on my desktop, from an external SSH session, nothing like setting your DISPLAY variable and allowing access via xhost. I had to walk over to my desktop and manually start it, it felt like going back to the stone age. What if I wasn't home? I would be unable to access my desktop UI at all without driving to my house and manually touching physical things, this is a wild regression to me.

The lack of good remote desktop is still an issue, but to be fair that's plagued linux for a while, it just mostly seems wildly inconsistent now with what will or will not work.

I guess X11 forwarding has been band-aided with waypipe, which is good, though I've not used it much yet so I don't know how well or not it actually works in real world use.

Someone please tell me I'm wrong about this and explain what I don't know, but every time I've asked about this stuff in various places I get radio silence.

Every time someone complains about Wayland it's always drivel.

No, Wayland is not more buggy than X11, you're just using an awful desktop environment and haven't developed proper Linux skills. You bought a Framework laptop and expected everything to be perfect without having a clue what you're doing.

Yeah I remember having x11 and zero problems, but I have to say that on KDE I don't have anymore Wayland issues nowadays.

It was ridiculous finding the Linux experience better 5 years ago than last year (thanks also to nvidia writing shit drivers)

Yeah, there's a lot that doesn't work for me, unfortunately.

Wayland doesn’t even do lock screen, jitters on scroll… I don’t get the hype.

If it were new I’d be patient, but I feel like it’s been 10 years now.