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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Yeah I’m holding out for xscreensaver support
I switched to sway from i3 about 5 years ago. It’s easier to configure (no /etc/X11 nonsense) and it fixed my screen tearing issue. I’m not much of a gamer, so can’t comment on that. Supertuxkart and browser games work fine.
Is Sway like a Wayland equivalent of i3? That’s the only thing really keeping me on X
Yes, sway presents itself as a drop-in replacement for i3 (just built on top of wayland instead of xorg).
I’ve used it on a Thinkpad laptop for close to 4 years, and on my desktop for the past 3.
The only problems I’ve encountered are some apps not being Wayland-compatible; xwayland makes the rendering work for those but then things like sharing a window or the entire screen don’t always work. Notably, Discord’s sharing doesn’t work, but I can use OBS to record any entire screen since [the OBS devs] put in the work to properly support Wayland.
Exact same. Sway’s 1.0 release was March of 2019, and it did everything I needed.
Even playing games on my desktop, Xwayland worked fine for me.
When it is ready and passes black screen or can use hardware acceleration without crashing compositor, I’ll use wayland
In 2017 I bought a ThinkPad with a hidpi screen, which I knew would give me trouble with Linux. Fortunately the Fedora 26 beta had just been released and was using Wayland by default (I wasn’t very Linux savvy to do it myself yet). I’ve been using Wayland on Fedora ever since without issue.
@headroom Wayland has been my daily for almost a year-and-a-half, most of that on Intel/Nvidia hybrid gpus. I used to use XFCE but switched to Plasma in anticipation of the Landing of Way.
Daily drove wayland back in November when I finally built my new desktop and installed Nobara. It’s the default and it juat worked out of the box. Have always been a windows user until now.
Games workost of the time. Good enough for me. Full team Red build inside the case.
When some crappy vendors (ahem, Zoom) bother to get screen sharing working on Wayland.
Until then I’m stuck on xorg at work, but it’s Wayland all the way at home… not by explicit choice, just the distro default.
When XFCE supports it.
KDE Wayland is an epilepsy inducing flickerfest with my Nvidia GPU, so it’s off limits until they fix it. Games usually run fine on X11, but one exception I noticed is Noita, it runs like crap on X11, and runs great on Wayland for some reason.
If you don’t know, the fix for that is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967
I was using it on a new work machine, it was fine.
The main issue is all the good tiling wms are X11 based and I don’t really want to use a wayland version of i3. I want some dynamic tiling goodies.
I never switched. Just doesn’t seem worth the hassle.
Loads of broken features and extra work shoved onto the individual compositor / WM developers. I don’t care about security on my own computer, I just want screen sharing and clipboards to work reliably.
That said, I use just one (ultrawide) monitor, so even the benefits aren’t really there at all.
I use xmonad/xfce which is not available on wayland, and I have no real desire to research alternatives and config them/learn their keyboard shortcuts/etc. Its unclear to me what the benefit is from switching, from a UI perspective. Probably nothing.
But I’ll probably give it a try anyway in a few months maybe, I hear they merged something to make nvidia less glitchy, so maybe wait for that to be in my distro.
Every update of plasma I switch to Wayland so far my record is 1 week before running into a deal breaker issue.
Though Plasma six is so close to working for me. The only issues I’m getting on wayland is flickering in games, an issue where some windows don’t show up on the task bar, awful screen tearing when using two monitors of different resolutions, keyboard lag.
Same here. I’m on garuda dragonized, and tried out Wayland for a few days and everything you mentioned happened to me. Throw in some mouse focus issues for extra fun!
Been on it for about a year now, both with my desktop’s A770 and my laptop’s AMD iGPU. Experience has been pretty much flawless.
I’ve switched nearly all my computers to Linux with wayland in the past 2 years with the last device coming over in the last couple of months.
I run a headless fedora/kde
/waylandgaming desktop (with a nvidia GPU) which I use exclusively over steam links dotted around the house. That took a bit of tinkering tbh but flawless operation since. Edit: Turns out its actually still on Xorg. Still some work to do here getting this moved over. I forget why I didn’t stick but must’ve been some combination of headless and steam link streamsI use arch/hyprland on my daily driver laptop and arch/sway on my work laptop.
The wifes laptop is also fedora/KDE on wayland.
