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The last I checked, the BSDs and most other Unix-likes (and genuine Unix™ variants) don't support Wayland. In fact, Wayland is pretty much Linux-only in practice.

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Wayland is viable on FreeBSD, at least. It is very much not “Linux-only”.

From the FreeBSD wiki:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Wayland

> While Wayland isn't ready for general use.

I can't readily find anything to indicate that this claim is out of date. I am aware that Wayland has been ported, but I have not heard of it being widely used, or being "production ready" as per se.

FreeBSD wiki is a bit notorious for being out-of-date, and that particular page is marked “CategoryStale”. Anyway, first result on DuckDuckGo is someone using Wayland on FreeBSD successfully [1].

[1]: https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2021/03/16/wayland.html

Isn't that because FreeBSD provides an emulation of Linux?

No, wayland bits generally run well enough without needing the linuxolator.

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