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I felt like I also saw the momentum the OP talks about, and then when I went to try and set up Sway as my window manager in a new Void Linux installation it was a total nightmare. I need some new thing called a "seat manager" that I never needed with X11? And the only options are the bloated elogind (the whole point of Void is to avoid systemd style programs) or the somewhat feature bare seatd, neither of which I could get to work? Pass.

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Well, you're choosing the least popular (non-systemd) approach, and also skipping elogind. This stuff JustWorks on systemd based systems, so your blaim is inaccurate.

At LEAST read the docs for your distro:

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/session-management.html

Where do you think I found out about the necessity to install either of those things in the first place?

If Wayland only JustWorks on systemd-based systems that's not exactly making a great case for it, and this thread has plenty of other downstream stuff that it seems to upend as well.

I'm not trying to make a case for it, it's the simple the truth that systemd has simplified a lot of this behind the scenes work. If you'd prefer to stick to the un-maintained X server because you value your init system more, that's up to you :)

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