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A year ago when I was looking at linux for gaming what I kept hearing is that Wayland wasn't ready. I've been running Nobara 42 with KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland for about a month now and it's been great, now I hear Gnome is dropping X11 support, etc. What changed?
Wayland had/has a couple of missing features. Personally, it's nothing I use so I've been on Wayland for years now, but if you care about those missing features, then they won't work.
Honestly I don't even remember what they were anymore. I think screen capture was a big one though.
Screen capture in what way? Cause spectacle works fine for screenshots, I can stream video on discord, etc, so I've not run into a screen capture related issue.