Wayland, like X11, is a display server protocol, but it works differently. KDE Plasma now defaults to Wayland, and as of Plasma 6.8, all X11 support in Plasma will be dropped completely.
The problem child in the classroom is of course Nvidia. Only their newest proprietary drivers work properly with Wayland.
Absolutely!
I’m afraid @Kobold has either expressed himself badly — he’s not a native English speaker — or he’s wrong.
The thing is that Microsoft Windows isn’t particularly picky on whether the hardware properly functions or not. The Linux kernel on the other hand is.
The following thread — see the link below — may serve as an introduction, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. btrfs is a very advanced filesystem, and contrary to what some of our more conservative members believe, it is far more robust than ext4. 