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It'd helpful if the got Wayland to work first.
It doesn't?
My experience has been less that stellar, but it's always improving.
I've accepted it's inevitable, but at the moment nobody's forcing me to switch and I have zero motivation to. I haven't had any issues with X in years.
Thankfully, I'm not in Ubuntu, so I don't have anyone shoving their decisions down my throat (software-wise).
Do you use Nvidia by chance?
No, never. I mean, sincerely I can't remember ever owning an NVidia GPU.
For years, my main daily driver was a laptop which had an Intel GPU. When I swiched back to mostly a desktop a couple years ago, I went with AMDs -- because I think they make better CPUs than Intel -- and so am running Ryzen GPUs on the two desktop computers. All of the other computers in my house are headless micro-servers, ODroids, mainly.
Both the Intel i915 and the current Ryzens are rock-solid and fast under X. I haven't had issues on Intel GPUs in years, and have never had to do any tweaking on Ryzen. Back in the early days of my XPSes (I've owned 3 models over the years) I used to have to muck around with the drivers, but not in the past 6 years. A couple years ago I installed Artix on the XPS and didn't have to do anything with the drivers or X config -- it just worked. Earlier this year I wiped Artix and installed EndeavourOS, and again, X worked and has been utterly solid without any tweaks.
I am aware that some people have issues with X -- there's this tearing thing I've read about, but I have never, in all the decades I've been running Linux, seen it myself. Even back when I was editing modlines and xorg.conf. In all those years I've seen a lot of issues with X -- missing drivers, poor GL performance, difficult configuration -- but never that tearing thing. I can imagine if I did, I'd be glad for a solution, and would be eager to switch.