5 years ago and we still haven't got wayland yet.
Fedora 24 continues to improve support for the next-generation display server, Wayland. Wayland is still not the default for Fedora 24, but it worked well enough that I would not be surprised to see it the default option for Fedora 25. Just know there are still some quirks, like the inability to reliably get screenshots working, which is a deal breaker for me. [0] More details in [1].
I'm sure it's available in most other big distros, too.
[0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/fedora... [1] https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/03/04/why-wayland-anywa...
It also was available in Fedora 23. I've used it daily, only with minor hickups.
These hicksups include:
- Gparted not working without some command-line initialization, etc.
- Remmina remote desktop not working at all, unless built from source.
All in all, for a guy like me, pretty easy to work around. The tools which needed tweaking wouldn't be the ones "your grandma" would be using anyway, so impact on a typical user would probably be low.
It's not all the way there, but it's definitely ready for the "I use my laptop for web-browsing and email"-crowd.
https://github.com/rhinstaller/blivet-gui
http://www-rhstorage.rhcloud.com/blog/vtrefny/blivet-gui-20
Not just for servers, but quite useful on them is Cockpit which leverages storaged and libblockdev, providing a good chunk of storage configuration via web UI, among other things. https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
The default DE is still gnome with X11. In fedora 25 (that is next release) they intend to flip the switch to Wayland though.
That'll be the real test for how desktop ready it really is.
Progress is steady though. For example, KDE's Neon project [0] turned Wayland on as default [1] in developer edition.
Wayland will slowly crawl into distributions near you.
[1] https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/kde-neon-devu...