FWIW I’ve been able to compile Zed for Wayland only by removing any X11 references in the code and I’ve been using it for about two months or so.

Try DownOnSpot.

River WM

Gentoo, running pure Wayland and Pipewire, no X11.

Nice job! Now you begin the journey of refining and perfecting your kernel config over time, to suit you. A new world awaits.

for me, Debian -> Ubuntu -> Arch -> Artix -> Void -> Gentoo. I’ll reach my final form when I finally run LFS.