See my comment above, Tumbleweed still uses X11. Leap has already switched to Wayland, so it may follow suit but I expect this to not happen for at least 6 months, to let time for Wayland to improve (especially around accessibility and advanced featurea)
That in itself is also a stupid sentence, because X11 is just the protocol or specification, which then has an implementation such as (sorted from older to newer) the MIT X Server, Xfree86, Xorg and Xlibre.
It’s like complaining about SMTP (the protocol for sending email) hailing from the 80s and not being updated since 2008. Doesn’t mean mail servers and mail clients haven’t been improved since.
In all of their graphics environments? This feels impossible as Tumbleweed is a rolling distro and supposedly doesn’t mess up with the upstream defaults. I don’t use it nor typical DE, but isn’t KDE Plasma 6.0 and onwards Wayland by default?
You’re not being pedantic, you’re acting like you don’t know the casual meaning of words. Noone uses non Xorg/derivative software. X11 is defacto xorg as of today.
Maybe “avoids X11” could be renamed to “default’s to Wayland”
The way I would interpret “Uses Wayland by default” is that the criteria is specific to if a distro has a default. With @SYST3M_D3STR0YER scenario the criteria would not apply to that specifc use case. Which I think is fine. As everything already heavily implies Wayland should be the choice if you are forced to choose.
That’s probably the most sane way of writing it tbh, because then this avoids talking about the things you shouldn’t use. We tend to avoid anti recommendations in general. Also satisfied the case where a distribution has spins that support X11 (eg XFCE) and the main one which is GNOME/KDE etc is Wayland.
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