Wayland is the successor to the X server (X11, Xorg) to implement the graphics stack on Linux. The Wayland project was actually started in 2008, a year before I created the i3 tiling window manager for X11 in 2009 — but for the last 18 years (!), Wayland was never usable on my computers. I don’t want to be stuck on deprecated software, so I try to start using Wayland each year, and this articles outlines what keeps me from migrating to Wayland in 2026.
Seemed like he outlined everything he did and had decent points. I dislike articles that say “Here’s what you’re doing wrong” or “This GPL app is better than that GPL app”. But this one seems much more of a “This is what I do and how I do it”. I enjoy those. He’s not saying it for everyone, just his use cases and results.
2nd paragraph:
So answering the headline question: it would work if you just stopped using the 8k monitor
If your argument for Wayland is “stop using thousands of dollars in hardware to get it working”, then that’s not going to convince anyone. He doesn’t address that as a solution because that’s obviously a last resort.
No, it’s actually the opposite. He has an 8k monitor. Get rid of that, and then he has no blockers to using things the way he wants. Pretty simple solution.
If you buy hardware that is wildly incompatible with almost everything, then there’s your problem. You don’t buy things knowing it’s incompatible, and then wait for compatibility to come around whilst complaining about it UNLESS you intend to buy it to put some effort into making it work on your own.
That’s the entire point of this ecosystem and being able to upstream fixes.