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X (not formerly twitter) is decades old and is built around deprecated ways of doing things as well as a lot of legacy functions.
Wayland is a relatively new project with the aim of replacing X as a more "modern" display server.
Wayland had some stability issues, but they've since improved.
I'm sure Wayland is good and all, but I can't be arsed replacing X yet. I don't really have any skin in the game, I just don't replace functioning components just because they're old (FYI, bash turns 35 this year). While X does what I need it to do, I'll keep using it. I'll probably move over when my distro does.
I'll leave the technical explanation to someone else.
Yeah. Wayland works great on my laptop. I can’t even log in on my desktop because it’s Nvidia. As a light Linux user the difference doesn’t really mean much to me aside from the fact it doesn’t work on my desktop.
nvidia drivers aren't THAT bad imho. I just had to experiment with different driver and kernel versions to get my 4060 running properly on my primary PC.