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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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[-] kib48@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I haven't touched the X11 session once since I got my laptop, all Wayland

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

i'll probably jump the next time i change window managers or distros... i havent a reason to currently

[-] gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

Generally I have when I use Gnome or KDE on Linux, though I have started to prefer MATE, which doesn't have Wayland support yet afaik. I also started using FreeBSD on one of my computers a bit more, and I believe Wayland support is still a bit wonky on that right now. But as soon as Wayland support is there I'm definitely switching to that on the daily.

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[-] D_Air1@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Been using it since plasma 6

[-] ScottE@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

When I'm forced to, and not before then. X works perfectly well so there's no reason for me to switch to something else with less features.

[-] nephelekonstantatou@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I've been daily-driving hyprland for the last couple of months and it's been very smooth sailing for me. I configured it to very closely resemble my bspwm - polybar config though it was easier to set up. I have to say that in 99% of cases the experience is equivalent. You also get to run Wayland exclusive applications (though those aren't really common).

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

I don't feel like fighting my OS. It locked up every time it went to sleep and I switched to X and the problem went away. Maybe I'll try again but why bother? Everything is working fine for me.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

I use multiple machines. On one of the core machines, I switched to Plasma 6 on Wayland when that was released. I used XFCE on X11 previously. It seems ok so far.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, I have Wayland on both my gaming machine and my laptop. I switched for security reasons (i.e. client input isolation). I think Wayland compositors tend to be buggier than X WMs/DEs, just because they are newer/more immature, and there is less native support for it. But some native Wayland-only programs are really good, like Foot is pretty much the perfect terminal emulator for me, being lightweight and fast but with sixel support too. It pretty much has every feature I want to use (except ligature support but that's not super important to me) without any of the features I wouldn't use (looking at you Kitty).

However the downside is the occasional program that just doesn't work on Wayland, like JetBrains IDEs, which are one of the few pieces of proprietary software I voluntarily use. JetBrains IDEs use a bunch of X hacks so they have some buggy behaviour on Xwayland. I really hope JetBrains hurries up with their native Wayland support, especially since so many DEs and distros are moving to Wayland by default now.

I also wish there were more tiling compositors out there. It seems to just be Sway, Hyprland, River, DWL, and QTile (which has a Wayland option, which is very cool). Of which I have daily driven Hyprland and River and been happy with them. I know there's others but they seem pretty obscure or abandoned and not something I'd be looking to daily drive. On X there are so many WMs for every possible use case. And of course the popular X WMs are pretty mature software; I don't remember many breaking bugs when I was on i3, but Hyprland and River are in very active development which means a new update can mean bugs of varying levels of annoying/need a workaround/need to downgrade.

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Since Fedora 35 or more specifically rawhide in the lead up to Fedora 36, so late 2021. Plasma Wayland session, it had some rough edges, but I found it tolerable. I understand some people wont put up with it, or find workarounds and that is fair. Its been good to experience it as it has matured.

[-] etbe@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

For my home workstation running Debian/Bookworm I started running Wayland-Plasma when Xorg mysteriously refused to work after replacing my video card. Wayland just worked and really had no issues for me so while I'm sure I could have solved the X11 problem I didn't have a real need to.

I also changed my laptop to Wayland-Plasma more recently. A problem I had was in setting up the right modes for external monitors on laptops but that seems to work OK now. Generally things just work.

[-] banghida@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes. Since 2013 or so, if I remember correctly. Gnome 3.10.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 9 months ago

No, I see no benefits

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

When I can use mtp connections with cli apps instead of only gui apps

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Full AMD. KDE. Only one issue. I RDP into my work laptop, and sometimes I get weird artifacts on the screen until I minimize/maximize. Everything else is flawless

[-] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 9 months ago

I haven't used Wayland for about a week overall in my year of using Linux.

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

Not yet. I'll give it another go when I get Plasma 6 (I'm on Debian, so either I'll switch to Sid or just wait a while).

Last time I tried it, it mostly worked, but mpv had some issues and missing features on Wayland. I haven't kept up with the mpv developments since then so I'm not sure if that's been addressed upstream yet.

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

I am dependent on a couple of programs I run via wine - and wine still isn't directly compatible with wayland and buggy with xwayland...

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[-] heygooberman@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago

I would like to, but I'm running Arch with Cinnamon, and that desktop environment only has an experimental version of Wayland implemented. I've tried it, and it's too buggy to be used as a daily driver.

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[-] Piece_Maker@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

I've been dailying it on my desktop for a couple of years now (I want to say since 2022 but I forget exactly... there was a Plasma release where a certain feature finally became realised on Wayland and I switched then). Been running on my laptop for much longer, where I use GNOME. It's been great, but I don't have any Nvidia hardware.

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

I use it with gnome on nixos without any problems AFAICT. Had the explicit sync issue with Nvidia initially but I ended up buying an rx6800 to use as the host GPU when I set up win11 with KVM. Been completely fine since.

[-] 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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[-] 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.

[-] 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.

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

About a year ago I moved to Hyprland & Wayfire for my NVIDIA & Intel boxes. Moved NVIDIA to Radeon a few months back and had mixed results.

Recently tried Plasma 6 for experimental HDR and am impressed.

[-] 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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[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, though "since when" depends on the machine. My last machine to switch over was one with an NVIDIA GPU a couple of months ago.

[-] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

I have been for the past month now. All of my games are now working.

Previously no and the reason was bc of Nvidia issues, but they all seem resolved now for the most part

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