I totally like the idea of Wayland.

I am pained by the friction when I want to enable it (for KDE, on Fedora Linux, on VMware Workstation).

Sigh.

So, on the topic of this problem here, ... it seems as if Fedora Linux despises X11 enough to ship something ancient and heavily patched, where-as Ubuntu (even in 22.04 LTS) has a more recent (still old) baseline version.

And then there is ... Arch Linux. Or rather me trying EndeavourOS as in "make the install painless". What can I say:

 24.678 ms [ 19987] | } /* glXChooseVisual */

So, "glxinfo" starts about 70 times faster on Arch Linux than on Fedora Linux (38/39). No, I don't care about glxinfo, but I care a lot about any other X11 client having a two second delay on startup, be it Kate, Visual Studio Code, or Firefox.

I had always picked Fedora Linux to be reasonably up-to-date, an enormous amount of packages from an RPM-based distribution, similarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to reduce cognitive load.

Time to revisit my choice of distribution?