Man, am I so excited. raylib is how I managed to actually.. start getting proper fun out of programming, and finally get some projects that could be considered complete, as small as they were.
Also regarding Wayland, yeah, same.
Then again, Wayland is pretty young, so I would say, give it 2-3 more years? Until then, X11.
And there is many cute WMs on X11, but not wayland, soooo... I am stuck myself in X11 :D
Alongside that, there is Pipewire. Yeah, right...
Its quite impressive. It also fixed all my.. quirks/issues I had with Linux audio
Anyway, every year feels better, and I am happy with that.