To be fair… XLibre is doing that.

There's nothing contrarian in using software that works and and fulfills all your needs.

I gladly accept the fossil label, but there's no contrarian sentiment behind it ... I just never felt any pain staying with X11.

Also, the window manager I use is developed by a friend who lives 10min away and texts me every time he has an update, and I love it ... doesn't work on Wayland, though ...

Wayland doesn't work for me, I rely on a tablet in lieu of a mouse and under Wayland it's unusable. I tried hard

Under an X session it behaves flawlessly

I once heard about someone accidentally pouring tea from a teapot into a mug with instant coffee in it rather than hot water.

Your laptop has the GPU equivalent of that drink.

Is it something specific to a particular model or combination of those? Because I run a laptop with amd integrated GPU and discrete nvidia GPU (not that rare, actually) and Wayland works flawlessly. Games use xwayland without any issues when necessary.

I used to have my reservations a year or so ago, but Wayland has grown in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years. It is much more ready now.

Maybe someday someone will develop a better replacement, but so far no one has.

It looks like GNOME is the only compositor that doesn't support the wlr_layer_shell protocol, which is anything but surprising. Smithay works (Cosmic and Niri), wlroots works, Kwin and Mir work, Aquamarine (Hyprland) is not listed, but I know that it works.

kwin supports this, gnome from my perspective is more about a cohesive experience you either love or don't

why do you want to hide the window from the user in such a bizarre way? what's the purpose?

Isn’t this what conky does? Puts it on the root layer?

Which one are you talking about?

You could just use X11

Any time you point out any flaw in linux the fanboys come out to have a screech and tell you how its all your fault actually. I've learned you just gotta ignore them.

Bold of you to assume Wayland devs do things like absolutely everything else, in fact the opposite is true. As a rule of thumb Wayland devs must always do everything completely differently from everyone else and if you dont like that feel free to ignore the less than 2% of people who use Linux.