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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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[-] prey169@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Gsync doesn't work yet so... Not yet for me.

Also, they need to fix the load apps in last location like X has

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

I'm on AMD, so I've been on Wayland since around 2021. Haven't really experienced any issues.

[-] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 8 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

[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Used it for the last few years. X just doesn't work right with multiple monitors of different resolution.

[-] giddy@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

When VMWare Horizon Client (which I need for work) supports it

[-] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

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.

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[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've been on Sway for a while now. Also have a computer on Plasma (Wayland).

(Intel iGPU, AMD APU, and AMD graphics card)

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

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.

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

You're looking for Hyprland!

[-] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I’ve been using it ever since Ubuntu switched over. No major issues, though I have to launch Calibre (the ebook manager) via the command line with a special environment variable because the developer is anti-Wayland. I’m looking for alternatives.

[-] sxt@lemmy.world 1 points 8 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.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

I had it on a test system and Chrome/Chromium wasn't happy. Slow af. Dunno if it had an impact on Firefox, but that used a lot of RAM and was very slow when sharing the screen.

At least Waydroid worked flawlessly 👍

For now, I'm back on X11 where I game. I'll just wait for it come by default on major distros ("stable"), wait a little longer (stable for real) and then switch once nothing on my system needs "XWayland" or whatever. wine does AFAIK, so at least due to that, no Wayland for me.

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Chromium and Firefox work perfectly on Wayland. Minor issues like de-coupling tabs or something are made a bit differently, but thats cosmetic.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

Great that it works perfectly for you 👍 For me, it doesn't.

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[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz -1 points 8 months ago

I'll switch to wayland when it runs better than X. And that isn't the case for now.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I will daily drive Wayland when it becomes Xorg function equivalent e.g. functional screen capture and overlays like every other OS (so never)

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