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Wayland's nvidia support is improving over time, but although it's becoming less popular, X11 isn't likely to be completely deprecated anytime soon—I'd expect any mainstream distro to still at least have it as an option a couple of years from now, to handle corner cases Wayland still doesn't support.
The last X11 stable version bump on my distro was about a month ago, to 21.1.16, so it isn't like it's abandonware or anything.
Oh, that's good to know. So I can just install x11 on my Fedora no problem whatsoever?
Provided Fedora has the appropriate packages (and I expect they do), I can't see why not. But see if there's any distro-specific documentation on switching first.