Ruminating on wayland and sway for daily use with ArchLinux Background Many years ago, I found time to make an attempt to switch away from the X11 Window system to Wayland. At the time, I ended up switching back to Xorg, but I did want to revisit it. Since I returned from home recently and was gifted a Gen 6 ThinkPad X1 Carbon, I had a perfect opportunity to do so 1.