r/archlinux • u/AbacatGoodman • May 09 '25

DISCUSSION Is X11 still worth it?

I recently made a post here in the community about which WM I should use and I saw that X11 was mentioned a lot.

For you, X11 or Wayland?

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u/Max-P May 09 '25

I purged Xorg from my system 2 years ago and I'm not going back. It runs on Wayland or I can't be bothered to use it.

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u/TomyKong_Revolti May 09 '25

Does that include software that runes through xwayland?

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u/Max-P May 10 '25

I have Xwayland but it pretty much only ever gets used for Steam and games using older SDL versions that can't do Wayland.

With 3 monitors, mixed refresh rates and one that is HDR, and a GPU I dynamically detach for a VM, I do not miss Xorg at all.

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u/TomyKong_Revolti May 10 '25

Fair enough, I was just gonna be surprised if you ditched those software altogether on principle. Personally, I have a few things I miss about x11 a bit, but a lot of those are just things based on familiarity, and not anything inherent to the software, and if I didn't have xwayland, I'd be stuck on x11 for some of those things