> but every time I try a Wayland based desktop I always end up encountering weird bugs and corner cases with basic usability that drive me back to X11.
replyThe risk in that in this age of AI-assisted bughunting, X11 security vulnerabilities are more numerous and as nasty as they've ever been. And that says a lot.
I'm not denying that X11 has known security issues. However, I don't tend to run untrusted random gui applications on my system so that factors into the risks I'm willing to accept.
replyI recommend XFCE. I used both for years and in my experience it's like KDE but stable.
replyWhen was the last time you tried? What compositor?
replyI stick with LTS releases so last honest attempt would have been on a Kubuntu 24.04 LTS system.
replyWhat is a compositor - thing that actually draws window content on the screen? Whatever KDE provides?
Edit: To be fair to KDE/Wayland, the Wayland Kubuntu 24.04 experience was vastly improved over Kubuntu 22.04.
You are using a 3 year old Plasma release (5.27). Give the latest Plasma a try and you should hopefully be positively surprised.
replyThey've made major strides in the last two years. Give the next LTS a shot and I think you'll agree.
replyJust works out of the box without problems in Debian 13.
replyThe only issue that I noticed it's with screen scaling doing weird things with OpenOffice.
Well, there's SonicDE, but like many such projects it's probably maintained by reactionaries which introduces its own suite of issues around security, code quality, and "will this be maintained in a year, 5 years?"
replyThank goodness I never jumped back on the KDE bandwagon once KDE4 stopped sucking donkey balls. I just went with xmonad and the few apps I actually use.
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