I was running Debian stable with xfce4 (4.12.5) for the last few years. A few months ago, chromium and other applications started to give me major rendering problems, becoming completely transparent when switching virtual desktop "workspaces".

I decided it was time to get with the times and try out GNOME on wayland. While I would have preferred to stick with xfce, Debian stable does not make it convenient to upgrade to their latest version, 4.16.

I'm using a T480 Thinkpad and I'm sure my GNOME version is similarly out of date, but wayland has been performing well enough so far.

However, at this point I'm looking to migrate to Fedora when I get the time. I'm tired of fighting against the bizarre nerd carnival that is the Linux Desktop.

These are my installation notes: https://github.com/anschwa/debian-thinkpad-install