Hi,
After being a long time XFCE users, on some computers I have been installing KDE (on Bookworm) for people. Particularly people who had previously been using Windows. I don't have a lot of experience with KDE. I am finding it a very visually pleasing and easy to use GUI that has some nice mature programs. For example Kdenlive, KPatience. When installing KDE for people, I have been leaving Wayland as the compositor, believing that X11 was no longer supported. However recently I tested X11 and found the experience was much better. For example: 1) In Virt-Manager in X11 I can select "Resize to VM" and it works, where as in Wayland the resize does not happen. 2) In Chromium, if I do screen sharing in Jitsi, the Wayland experience there are a number of times I have to select what I want to share, but with X11 I can just select the item I want to share once. 3) Now I can run Steam games, OBS Studio, and Virt-Manager natively, without Xwayland being used. 4) KDE using X11 works well on my PCs with Nvidia cards. 5) I also wonder if using X11 will mean that Firefox does not lock up the whole computer when a certain (yet to be identified) ad is present in a web page. I want to ask if anyone knows is there any downsides to using using KDE with X11 and not with Wayland? It would be nice to be able to use X11 until finally Wayland has sorted out the various issues that have yet to be resolved, application maintainers have all produced a Wayland version of their software, and Nvidia and Wayland are happily working well together. (hopefully this will be in the near future) At this point of time my KDE with X11 experience is better than my KDE with Wayland experience. However I am concerned that at some point, somewhere, X11 will not be supported, sadly. George.
