A maintainer of wlroots and sway addresses common misconceptions about Wayland. Topics covered include security (the LD_PRELOAD keylogger is not a Wayland flaw), screenshot/screen capture support (screencopy and dmabuf-export protocols exist), clipboard support, embedded device compatibility, network transparency (X11 forwarding still works via Xwayland), remote desktop progress, client/server-side decorations, hotkey daemon design philosophy, Nvidia proprietary driver issues (Nvidia doesn't implement GBM), and gaming pointer-lock support. The author argues most criticisms are either outdated, misattributed to Wayland rather than specific compositors, or stem from third-party failures like Nvidia's lack of standard API support.
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Wayland isn’t more secure, look at this keylogger!Wayland doesn’t support screenshots/capture!Wayland doesn’t have a secondary clipboard!Wayland doesn’t support clipboard managers!Wayland isn’t suitable for embedded devices!Wayland doesn’t have network transparency!Wayland doesn’t support remote desktop!Wayland requires client side decorations!Wayland doesn’t support hotkey daemons!Wayland doesn’t support Nvidia!Wayland doesn’t support gaming!In conclusionSort: