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Calling x11 well supported at this point is like calling a 1977 Pontiac firebird trans Am. Well supported
It's liked, there's lots of information about it. But any real support died for fucking ever again. And the only people claiming otherwise have their heads buried deep in the sand.
Even calling it stable has a lot of ifs to it at this point. If your on a old system, only doing basic things, with a well trodden and documented track record. Then yeah it's more solid then a block of solid rock.
But half the reason it's "stable" is because it's a duct taped mess that is basically a bat shit insane house of cards one bad day from falling apart.
But we know every fault, trick, and piece of duct tape. So the chance of it falling apart is almost zero.
Waylands problem tends to be it just refuses to hurry the fuck up and actually get any real work done. But what does get done tends to get done more right then x11 and quickly fixed up as issues come up.
So long as the gnome team shuts the fuck up and doesn't interject. If they do then all bets are off.
I think the main stability issues that people encounter with Wayland are because of one of two reasons:
The main security features people get hung up on are:
There's some other problems, some more stupid than others
I respect Wayland trying to avoid backing itself into a corner where expanding future support is going to be a mess because they rushed to get something out, but it does take a long time, and we're not there yet.
On a somewhat random note, I have a screen with probably crappy HDR support, and previously on Plasma I tested it a couple of times for fun, but there wasn't much support from software and the colors were off. Recently I hit some weird bug where my colors were just off (on SDR), looking greenish, decided to try turning HDR on and off to see if it'd help. After turning it on, I realized the colors look fine, after running the calibration it looked the same as it would in SDR, but just with HDR support. I tested it on YouTube videos, not sure how to tell how well it's working, but it's a nice "huh, guess we got there" moment, where there's another thing that now just seamlessly works for me.