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submitted 8 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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[-] banghida@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 8 months ago

No, I see no benefits

[-] chris@lem.cochrun.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

A year and a half? Basically when hyprland got good enough. I used to use awesome and needed something with similar pretty features.

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 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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[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 points 8 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.

[-] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

KDE Plasma on Arch on integrated Intel graphics here. I've been on it for a few years and I love it.

[-] nephelekonstantatou@lemmy.world 2 points 8 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).

[-] joe_archer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

When network keyboard and mouse sharing works. It is the only thing stopping me going full Wayland.

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[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I am a relatively new Linux user, 3 years (almost 2 years dual booted with Windows and now only Linux) and I started using Wayland after approx 2.5 years ago. I used it on my ideapad gaming with 3050etx and Intel igpu and prior to that I used some hp laptop... With gtx 980mx. I used manjaro then arch and then fedora for the last yeae mostly and I haven't encountered any issues with Wayland whatsoever

[-] zarenki@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I've been using it since it felt usable enough in GNOME to me. Around 2015-ish, give or take a year. GNOME leading on Wayland support is a big part of why I switched to it from Xfce back then. Nowadays KDE and others have plenty good Wayland support too (better in some ways like allowing server-side decorations and global shortcuts) but I just haven't felt like trying to properly experiment to see what I like.

I've always avoided Nvidia on my desktops. Stuck with either radeon or intel and never had any exceptionally big issues with them on Wayland. Though other things like hardware accelerated video decoding have had a history of being spotty on some drivers/GPUs.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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

[-] loopgru@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Niche, I know, but I'm waiting on full functionality in Input Leap (Barrier fork which was a Synergy 1.x fork). Right now it sounds like it's 90% of the way there but lacks clipboard sharing. I'm running Wayland on my desktop, but this soft kvm is pretty fundamental to my workflow on my laptop.

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[-] gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 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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[-] MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

A year-ish, Plasma, Intel iGPU for Desktop and Nvidia offload for Steam. It's great.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

I couldn't get the trackpad working right on X (why tf is acceleration on by default?), tried switching to Wayland in the first few hours of using Linux, and haven't had significant issues since. At that point I had no reference on performance, so no way to tell if X would be better.

There's maybe one bug that causes an unrecoverable GPU hang when using certain applications, but that may have been fixed in the kernel already, and I just need to use something newer than 22.04 LTS.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

I have for more than a year. I've never had a single problem, but I'm on an all AMD system.

[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago

I daily drive wayland with nvidia and I play games modestly. I have Xorg installed as backup for when issues happen, but it's been pretty rare in the last couple months.

[-] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

I don't use it because it makes blender run at like 5 fps for some reason.

[-] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

I use Wayland on my laptop running fedora 39 kde spin and it mostly runs fine. When I browse gifs in discord the screen flashes white and I can't maximize jellyfin on connected TVs but other than that no major issues.

[-] TeddyKila@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

No. I plan to switch when I replace my 3070 with an AMD chip.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I tried for a bit and it was great, no complaints. However, I was having issues getting NixOS set up as quickly as I would like, so I went back to Pop!_OS. I'm looking forward to the next release of Pop, which will have full Wayland by default.

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[-] heygooberman@lemmy.today 1 points 8 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.

[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

Same here, except on Mint. Once it becomes stable with Cinnamon I'll be happy to use it.

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