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X11 vs Wayland (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 hours ago by pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What's the difference for a real user between using X11 or Wayland nowdays? I haven't found anything useful on the internet, so I'm asking you. Internet articles on the topic (and about WMs too) seem to be advertising slop since they explain anything but the real things. Also, if anyone used the XLibre fork, I would love to hear about your experience with it.

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[–] delcaran@feddit.it 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

On my 2014 PC I'm using Fedora 44 with KDE, which defaults to Wayland: not problems whatsoever, but some applications say "Wayland support is experimental, beware".

I switched to X11 after a suggestion to debug some issues with a game. The issues was not fixed, all the other applications I've tried are still working flawlessly. PLUS the KDE night light feature is working (was not in Wayland). So I stayed with X11.

On my wife MacBook (2015) I installed Kinoite, defaults to Wayland. Everything works, but Rustdesk renders VERY small. I have not tried X11 on that, and will not try it.

Try both with all your applications and setups and choose the smoother experience. Make security a secondary priority: if it was the first you have less attack surface sticking to terminal only.

[–] pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Wait, you installed Linux on a MacBook?

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

You always could do that before the M chips

[–] delcaran@feddit.it 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yes: it was the only way to update the software inside. It was so old some pages refused to load, and was really slow. It was a painless and quick procedure and it has been working better than ever since then: decent hardware with (now) very good software.

[–] pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

This is... decent