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The MATE DE is fairly popular among the small (not so small in India) but growing (thanks to Windows 11 no doubt) Linux desktop market, isn't it? They strive for Wayland compatibility, but aren't quite there (such I take from their release notes; I myself use an ancient version of Ubuntu/Mate here, right now).

I'm not all that informed regarding Waylands benefits and shortcomings (just being puzzled when "performance" or "overhead" is quoted as reason to move away from X11, remembering that the latter didn't seem unbearable slow 30 years ago and that performance of computers in general and computer graphics in particular increased manifold since then). There are however some who should know, who don't seem all that excited: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support...



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