Actually, Wayland is usable. I am leaning on Sway on my laptop.

 Just to bring the conversation up to date.  It is easier to use sway on this laptop---a Lenovo X1 Carbon gen. 9---because it has a HiDPI display.  I3/X11 are problematic, requiring numerous configuration tweaks.  Hyprland is easier, but less compatible.  

 

My personal customizations for i3 are not completely compatible with Sway.  For one thing, I have adopted dropdown windows for a number of applications on i3, which is sometimes problematic, but usually works.  Kitty works ok in this way on Sway.  Emacs, not so much.  The following applications have bindings in my i3 configuration, and work well: orage (calendar); xephem; R).  Emacs is ok, but tricky.  Kitty too can be tricky.  This manner of using i3wm is fantastic for my workflow.  I also have had kmag on a dropdown keybinding, which is useful.   

 I have, as of May, 2026, not made much effort to get all of these utilities working on Sway.  Dropbox's hot icon does not work on i3, so far, for me; on Sway it does work with swaybar, an excellent bar.  

 Tiling WMs work for me.  I3 is easy to configure.  Sway can run ok using the i3 config files, except for edge cases.

 

 

 

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