Is there a useable distrobution for the pbp -- without wayland?

[jpalus]

While it's not necessary to use Wayland compositor on PBP, the performance difference is significant compared to X. Hardware architecture of GPU found on PBP (and other devices with Mali GPU) makes it really hard to perform well under X and that's unlikely to ever change. Note that it equally affects performance of X applications under Wayland (run with XWayland) -- they too perform poorly. So if your primary focus are X applications, there's not much of a benefit to go Wayland.