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submitted 9 months ago by headroom@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia).

I thought it was okay for the most part but then I had to switch to an X session recently. The experience felt about the same. Out of curiosity, I played a couple of games and realized they worked much better. Steam doesn't go nuts either.

Made me think maybe people aren't actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community. And that maybe I should just go back.

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[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Used it for the last few years. X just doesn't work right with multiple monitors of different resolution.

[-] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I’ve been using it ever since Ubuntu switched over. No major issues, though I have to launch Calibre (the ebook manager) via the command line with a special environment variable because the developer is anti-Wayland. I’m looking for alternatives.

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I tried Wayland many times in the past ~6 years, usually with Sway (but I tried most other compositors, other than KDE's), but I always came back to X11 (using cwm).

Around two months ago I started using river, and I think I'll stick with it. There are enough Wayland protocols which now exist (and are supported by river) that using a minimal compositor feels pretty similar to just using a window manager on X.

[-] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I need full screen share and I think it isn't there for wayland. But the track pad support is better in wayland.

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[-] Veraxis@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I have a laptop with integrated Intel graphics and a desktop with Nvidia graphics. I use Wayland on the former right now as of KDE 6. I have noticed some odd behaviors, but overall it has been fine. The latter, however, just boots to a black screen. I have neither the time nor the desire to debug that right now, so I will adopt Wayland on that machine when it works with Nvidia to a reasonable degree of stability.

[-] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Got hyprland running on the macbook, have tested it out on desktop. Not quite the daily driver, plasma 6 on X is still the norm there, but I think as soon as synergy works in Wayland I’ll make the switch everywhere

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Whenever Nobara moves to KDE 6, I'll probs switch over to Wayland. Likely sometime this year.

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[-] Ing0R@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

I'm running Wayland for many months now. Yust because why not. It just works. Debian sid with gnome here.

[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

When I can inject keystrokes to windows not on focus with scripts.

[-] HarriPotero@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I've been daily driving it on some devices for maybe 6 months.

My only showstopper was input-leap, but I have not had to use it for two months. So I've gone all-in since. It works better in every sense - except for the input-leap thing.

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[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Since I mostly run Debian with KDE, I've been using it a lot since KWin is on its stable repo.

First time I really use it is on Gentoo, which exclusively runs Plasma. Since it's rolling-release, it didn't take too long to be available.

I've been moving this build from one computer to another, they all work fine. Currently it's on a Thinkpad W530. Got some problems with multi-monitor that never happen under X11. Thankfully after I replace the firmware with coreboot, and opted for dGPU only, I never encountered any issue.

Currently, what keeps me from fully ditching X11 on KDE is the buggy SDDM support.

On the other hand, I've been using Linux Mint on my work PC. As you may have known, neither Cinnamon and XFCE has it at the moment.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I've been using it since about spring 2022 and it's been way more reliable than X for me. The only times I've had trouble was one computer where I was missing one of the pipewire packages I needed for screen sharing and another time I tried to run it on a 20 year old Radeon X1600, but both of those were my fault and not something a normal user is likely to encounter. For context I've used Sway, Hyprland, GNOME, and Plasma although the usability has been the same between all of them.

[-] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Ye, since Plasma 5.24 I think. Used to occasionally switch to X11 for competitive gaming, but as of Plasma 6 their Wayland compositor supports fullscreen tearing, so now I have no need to use X11 anymore

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

I had it on a test system and Chrome/Chromium wasn't happy. Slow af. Dunno if it had an impact on Firefox, but that used a lot of RAM and was very slow when sharing the screen.

At least Waydroid worked flawlessly 👍

For now, I'm back on X11 where I game. I'll just wait for it come by default on major distros ("stable"), wait a little longer (stable for real) and then switch once nothing on my system needs "XWayland" or whatever. wine does AFAIK, so at least due to that, no Wayland for me.

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

Chromium and Firefox work perfectly on Wayland. Minor issues like de-coupling tabs or something are made a bit differently, but thats cosmetic.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

Great that it works perfectly for you 👍 For me, it doesn't.

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[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz -1 points 9 months ago

I'll switch to wayland when it runs better than X. And that isn't the case for now.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I will daily drive Wayland when it becomes Xorg function equivalent e.g. functional screen capture and overlays like every other OS (so never)

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