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I'm all for this. Wayland has its downsides, and X11 has its place, but I appreciate much more that Wayland is built for a desktop experience, and the broad support for different display technologies that KDE has made a priority in Plasma 6 is a large reason for why I made the jump over to Linux full time.
XWayland hasn't caused any significant issues for me either. As far as the experience goes, it's pretty much transparent to the user. For the average person, the biggest difficulty still to solve is probably the XWayland video bridge that doesn't quite work as seamlesly as it should yet.
I'm new and dumb to Linux..the only way my Surface Book works with auto rotate is X11, Wayland doesn't do it. How can I fix it without X11?
Wayland works differently than X11 in this regard. Using Fedora 40 on a Lenovo Yoga 730, I had to enable Tablet Mode from the KDE settings and then auto-rotation worked fine
Surface devices might be different though, so I can't say too much about them. There may be a specific sensor library or tool required, since Wayland communicates with your device differently than X11