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I remember Wayland scared me off of Linux when I tried to switch to Ubuntu a few years ago. I couldn’t watch a movie without jiggling my mouse every few minutes. At the time I feel like it was like “yeah that feature doesn’t exist yet” or something. So I switched back to Windows. It looks like there’s workarounds now but I’ve mostly switch to my fantastic M1 MacBook Air at this point.

Wayland still doesn't support screensavers last I checked, which is wild to me. Truly bizarre that such longstanding feature is just absent.
It's a matter of designing and proprosing a protocol for it. X11's screensaver support was also a protocol extension.

There probably hasn't been much interest in it because screens can easily be powered off remotely, which was not the case in 1992.

Yeah, most of those real gaps have been solved at this point. I'd encourage you to give it a shot now with Avahi

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