Linux

Have been on Walyand for a year now, no problems except for a weird big in Inscape so thst runs in X11 mode.

Fedora, so most Gnome based distros. KDE as commented beside me. Arch-based EndeavourOS.

If it ships, Arch will have it immediately.

KDE Neon and kubuntu have Wayland as default. Just was trying them because I wanted Plasma 6. Took a bit of tweaking for a few things but I have all the things I need running fine with Wayland.

When I first started using KDE and Sway I was so used to the Xfce apps that I installed the xfce4-goodies, running on top of Wayland. So fucking good memories.

I'm currently using sway/ mate on my chromebook. Ii like the idea of not switching between Wayland & x11 when switching DE's

You don't need a desktop environment, but it takes away a lot of config work if you want a full featured desktop.

A compositor is normally a component in a DE, not a DE on its own. For it to be a DE in my book the "standalone" installation needs to, at minimum, provide: a launcher to execute apps, a toolbar/statusbar, and maybe a terminal emulator (or at least call some generic wrapper to automatically hook into one, something like xdg-terminal-exec).

I mean.. openbox is used in X11 desktop environments like LXDE.. I don't see why labwc (essentially wayland's openbox) should be treated like it cannot be a component of one.

And river has almost as a mission statement to become more of a framework than a DE on its own.. they even have the goal in the long term to remove things from it and instead expose more to the commands/API to make it more modular.. it's definitely not something intended to work standalone and they expect people to develop third party layout generator programs.

Maybe sway is the one in that list that might be the most "standalone", since it does have swaybar built-in.. but the default configuration still expects you to provide at least something like dmenu to use as launcher, as well as making sure you have your terminal, etc, since it does not list them as specific dependencies of the sway package, so officially they aren't really part of sway as if it were a DE suite.

I used sway for quite a while and after the initial setup (which was very finniky) it was alright to use. But then you start to notice little things that annoy you and by that time you've forgotten where that setting was in the config. For Linux noobs like me it's not great long-term. If you like having all your DE settings in a config file sure, use it, but I'm going back to KDE.

I guess we are used to it, I like to use sway in the desktop and KDE in the laptop but I want to run Wayland. And with both of them is possible.

Openbox (LXQt's wm under Xorg) does support global shortcuts.

And labwc supports rc.xml so it should support global shortcuts as well.