Always interested to read how others are choosing their tools, but if you don't want to get as bogged down in these details and are more inclined towards a rolling distro, I can vouch for Manjaro Sway. I've been using it for three ywars now on the original Framework laptop and while it has had some bumps along the way I am happy for the sensible decisions the maintainers have made for me, including most of the items here.
Would be nice to see a Debian or Fedora Silverblue equivalent of this kind of opinionated Sway base.
I used wayland for a long time some years ago and it was basically the same experience, Screensharing was the main blocker back then.
Never noticed a difference in terms of snappiness or tearing.
Nowadays I have a nvidia gpu and wayland + proprietary drivers has tons of issues, so I switched to x11.
I could probably use the integrated gpu (amd) to drive the desktop and use nvidia purely for ai/ml (which would free up some extra vram) but then I can't play videogames on the nvidia card.
I still have the i3 to sway switch in front of me. Screen sharing is a daily must in my work, so at least somewhat in the past there were too many warning voices.
Fedora has a sway spin. I wonder whether that "just works" (TM).
The article was written on 2022-11-16. Would be interesting to know if things have gotten easier.
I tried moving to Wayland and hyprland last year, but I couldn't get Zoom to handle screen sharing (specifically window sharing). I wonder if this has improved at all?