I use gnome, and it has a lot of pain points:
- fractional scaling with multiple monitor sucks. Now it sucked with X too but this is not that big of an improvement.
- fractional scaling single monitor sucks with the upscaling system for xwayland. X is also bad with tearing, but with a single monitor you can just font scale.
- gnome fractional scaling sucks as it can cause artifacts like lines and dots to appear at edge of screens. Presumably some sort of division rounding problem but idk. Probably gnomes fault but doesn’t happen on X. Also not Nvidia issue as I run Intel GPUs.
- Wayland gnome has a number of performance and usability problems. Waking laptop from sleep: the mouse cursor will stutter (wtf!) for around 5-10 seconds before behaving normally. Not an issue with X. There are general performance problems with gnome tho so more than likely it is gnome’s fault as usual.
- sometimes when you unplug from monitors, the screen will stay blank for 30-60s, frozen, until it figures out. Probably also a gnome problem but it is not like this on X.
- dragging from the archive manager to decompress file into nautilus doesn’t work under Wayland. May have been fixed, but not in Ubuntu 22.04
- screen share support is broken
- global shortcut is simply not supported because of “security reasons”.
Also the other pain point is how no one cares and how people are like… well it works for me, or they don’t care about stutters, or they say their distro and desktop environment is better, and blaming the user.
It also tears significantly in my experience, which is pretty unusable…