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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

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[–] ugo@feddit.it 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I second this. I’ve been on wayland for a few years now and while my needs are pretty standard I also regularly need slightly-off-the-beaten-path features. Not everything used to always work, but in the last, I want to say 18 months, I never found my needs lacking.

Multiple monitors work, adaptive sync works, mic / webcam works, screen / window sharing works, remote desktop and wayland forwarding works, etc.

That’s not to say everything is guaranteed to work all the time, but I am surprised to see people saying that even today they always find something fundamental that is broken when they attempt to switch.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Screen sharing is a great example. I used to have issues with it, but since about a year I'm able to share my screen in the MS teams PWA in Firefox and even the Discord flatpak without a hassle.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah. In the first months, there were clipboard issues. Until 2 years or so ago for me, screen sharing wasn't perfect.

I searched for or filed issues whenever I could, and there's not a trace of a problem left.

I wonder if these people just complain on social media and give up immediately without informing anyone relevant and then feign surprise when shit's not magically fixed later.