The primary reason for me is support for Nvidia drivers, they only seem to work on Xorg. This may have changed in the last 12 months, have not checked.
Also, I quite like the ability to use "remote" X sessions (clients), and ssh to a target host to run something that is headless, but requires a UI then sending the display output from the remote client to the local machine (X server, with open port ready for UI connections) using the environment variable $DISPLAY, very useful when on the same network - slightly larger security risk. UI frames sent to the X server get there quickly and are not bogging down the ssh session by being tunneled across. I also struggled with starting command line tools from the terminal which requires a display. I prefer to be hands-on-keyboard so entering "sudo gparted" in a window'd terminal like a term or xterm should work by launching gparted in the same window manager session as the open terminal, but last I tried 24 months ago it did not. I hope this helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1924689 Title: Window border corruption after changing display scale between 100% and 200% in Xorg Status in Mutter: New Status in OEM Priority Project: New Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Ubuntu release: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Issue description: When the gnome-initial-setup launched, if user changes the scale 200 -> 400 or 100 -> 200. There is some garbage on the edge of the window. The issue is not seen if we login in wayland session. A video is attached. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mutter/+bug/1924689/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
