I have tried Wayland on Linux and it was not a very good experience, it would lock up when I clicked on a window for some reason, this was very strange, my machine locked up completely and I was forced to switch off my PC to restart it. And this is supposed to be the future of the Linux desktop? It does not even work with the features in xscreensaver, this needs a lot of work indeed. It is far better to use Xorg instead of Wayland. But hopefully, this will be fixed in the far future. For Linux on the desktop to be a reality, it needs one unified desktop environment and this needs to be easy to use and fast. Plus fast and easy installation of all drivers such as ATI and Nvidia drivers. And easier system updates installation. Windows 11 can install updates and then reboot to finalize the installation of updated system software. The “Offline” system updates on boot used by Fedora actually make sense, this is a controlled environment that the system boots into and this allows easy and safe package updates without the desktop environment already running and getting in the way.
When I ran sudo do-release-upgrade to upgrade my Ubuntu installation to 22.04, I did this in the TTY instead of having a desktop running to allow easier updates. This was quite painless. Maybe this is how Android installs updates, it loads into a minimal environment and then the upgrade process can run without interference. A Grand Unified Desktop would be a great thing for Linux in the 21st century. This was written about in 2003 and this still has not become a reality in 2023. Other useful things such as icons in the file picker, and a unified file manager would be another great addition to Linux. And Gnome is not the solution to this either, it is too much like using a mobile device. I do not like how the user interacts with the desktop environment, it is just like an Android device. Another better desktop is needed on Linux, with a unified look and feel that anyone can make use of with a minimum of training. Just as it is with Microsoft Windows, Windows 8 is the only outsider, but even that was not too hard after all. The Metro UI was different, but typing the name of an application would bring it up instantly. I think that a unified desktop environment for Linux should have a corporate feel and be easy to use as well.