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Do note that the article is mainly about Wayland on the raspberry pi. Of course Wayland isn't the default most places yet (Fedora being the big exception, I think), though you can install it on most distros.

I've been Wayland/Sway on NixOS for a while, and I really like it.

One question though - the article seems to say that wlroots is a Rust project, but it seems to very much be a pure C project? (https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots)

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> the article seems to say that wlroots is a Rust project, but it seems to very much be a pure C project?

Yeah. It uses meson/ninja to build. No Rust.

What do you like about it?

For general use it seems as if it'll be something that makes no difference to my day-to-day usage of my computer other than a warm fuzzy feeling that the underlying protocol is "right".

That's true - the two things I really like are no screen tearing ever (be that scrolling Firefox or YouTube videos) and that warm fuzzy feeling.

Edit: I also like Sway quite a bit (over i3/X) - its configuration (outputs, input devices, etc) makes a lot more sense and is a lot easier for me than trying to change stuff in different places and in different ways with X.

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