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Ubuntu 21.04 will be using Wayland by default for non-Nvidia users, which would suggest that it's not far off.

There are also configurations that are better supported by Wayland than X11, not to mention Wayland handles things like trackpad gestures better (which at this point, X11 is never going to get better at), so even if it's not yet production ready there are reasons why some might want to use it.



Such is the burden of choice. Today, however, x11 is still the standard.


X is no more standard than Wayland at this point. While many distributions still use X by default, it is in maintenance mode, and on it's way out.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/trying-wayland-by-default-aga...

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefault

It seems reasonable to expect that these two distro's are the main ones in use by people who don't know enough to pick for themselves.


x11 is considered deprecated and is in maintenance mode so it very much is not the standard anymore.


Well, it is still the standard, in the same way that Windows XP was still the standard in 2010.




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