I have no idea. I continue to use X intentionally, because I use some features it has that Wayland doesn't replicate.
I'd say when wayland decides to take users needs more seriously
I use XFCE[0] which doesn't have full Wayland support[1]...yet.
I'm not opposed to using Wayland, but I am a dedicated XFCE user. As such, I won't move to Wayland until XFCE fully supports it.
And once it does, I assume my preferred distro (Fedora[2]) will make Wayland the default for XFCE (as it already does for Gnome and KDE).
Where is your source for 80-90% using X11?
My assumption would be that by now, it would be 80+% on Wayland.
Hardware survey shows more than 50% wayland usage a few months ago, it harder to have a correct survey, how much of those 80% is just legacy systems that don't update anymore, or don't matter?, like a car dashboard, it uses x11 but noone would count it, or make applications for it, the correctly measure is limiting it to desktop use, and places where update and new applications care about
Ime it doesn't work well on old gpus. E.g., on my Quadro P400 desktop I still use xorg because it is much snappier. On my new laptop with Arc it is still slower, but I can live with it since the animations are smooth.
I'd like to see Wayland get more traction
That’s the problem with Wayland.
What you like, is not an engineering criterion.
Wayland breaks my working system.
That is a good definition of badly engineered.
If you want adoption, cowboy up and make it backward compatible.
Good luck.
I had constant issues with Wayland in Plasma using KDE Neon. I tried again recently and it seems better now.
I guess I can blame my docking station and the DisplayLink drivers.
Now Wayland is my default session and no issues so far.
I’ve been using Wayland since it became the default in Fedora. These days it seems to be working great. I’m especially happy with how well KDE seems to work on Wayland now.
Ubuntu's default is Wayland, so I'm surprised that doesn't sway things more - I thought Ubuntu had about â…“ of the market for Linux desktops.
I was under the impression, and my anecdata seems to support, that Wayland already had the majority.
Where are you seeing such high figures for X?
When it works. Last time I was on it kde was resetting screen brightness to 100% everytime they woke. The time before I crashed it by dragging a url between windows, not the source or destination programs but wayland itself dropping me back to the console.
For me, it's the default and, therefore, the one I use. I miss xkill, but that's about it. The other day I was a bit annoyed when I ssh'd into my other laptop downstairs and an app I started there (don't remember what) started there instead of forwarding the window to my desktop. This is the feature I miss the most, and I'm sure it'll eventually get there.