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[-] procapra@lemm.ee 30 points 6 days ago

I might switch to wayland when xfce starts to have decent support for it. I'm not a ride or die Xorg fan, I just want to keep using the DE I'm used to.

[-] Wilmo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Yeah AFAIK the only two DEs that fully support Wayland are the big two - Gnome and KDE. and a few tiling window managers like Sway and Hyprland.

I look forward to a world where all modern DEs are fully supportive of Wayland like Cinnamon and Budgie and I know people love their xfce.

[-] procapra@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, i can't explain why I love xfce so much. It's very much like a windows 9x style desktop with some QOL improvements (press alt to click drag a window is such a great feature)

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[-] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 5 days ago

to the unavoidable "it's been 15 years" comments: 15-year-old x11 was a piece of shit. the difference is that we had no alternative so we had to put up with it

[-] arc@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago

I'm glad Wayland is maturing and taking over. Even most of the X11 devs hated X11 which tells you something.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago

You know Wayland will be ready when these threads don't get 100 comments

[-] arc@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago

I think Wayland just attracts trolls in the same way as systemd does.

[-] djsp@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah. Over on ~~Moronix~~ Phoronix, every article about Rust, systemd, Wayland or –to a lesser extent– GNOME is a troll fest.

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[-] IndieGoblin@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 4 days ago

Wayland is already ready and majority of linux desktop users are using it without issue.

[-] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 6 days ago

As an average desktop user, I've run into very little pushback on Wayland. Its made huge leaps in a short amount of time.

[-] arc@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

Yes it's been stable for some time with a couple of caveats - you need a decent graphics driver and not be using apps with edge cases.

Here is a simple example of an edge case and it's not hard to find people blaming Wayland even though with some thought this was a security issue - apps like Zoom, Discord, MS Teams want to do screen sharing which is easy in X11 because it has non existent security - just steal the screen bitmap. That's a problem.

Wayland (the protocol) provides no means for one app to grab the screen, or other apps. This is by design for security. Instead the app must be a good citizen and send a "i want to screen cast" message to the xdg-desktop-portal (a service provider implemented by GNOME, KDE etc.), the desktop asks for user consent and then the app gets a video stream. So it's a lot more secure but it requires the app and the WM do things properly.

Desktops and apps have matured and these issues are thankfully going away. I think the biggest hurdle left is proper graphics drivers, especially the problem of getting NVidia drivers working.

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[-] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

I finally switched when I moved from Arch to Fedora and it's worked fantastically for me. This is where the Linux desktop is heading now for sure.

[-] Artopal@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago

"rough start" is putting it mildly. 🤭

[-] juipeltje@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Yeah it's at the point where i'm wondering if i still even need xorg. I'm still keeping it around just in case for now, but i could very easily purge it from my system anytime since i'm using nixos and all my xorg related settings are in a specific file. The main pet peeve i have with wayland is gaming related, and should hopefully improve when wine and proton go native wayland. I have a dual monitor setup and games always choose the wrong monitor by default, which means i can only use the resolution and refreshrate of the secondary monitor. I have a keybind to set the primary xwayland monitor with xrandr, which solves the problem, but it is a bit hacky. I also need to toggle vrr on and off with a keybind because it causes flickering on my monitor. It's a bit annoying but atleast it works, on xorg you can't even use vrr with multi monitor to begin with.

[-] Bulletdust@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

My biggest issue gaming under Wayland is the fact that certain games can't capture the mouse when run full screen with multiple monitors. I've got a number of games that exhibit the issue, but the easiest way to experience it is to try and run CS2 as wayland native (so not under xwayland - As the performance overheads running xwayland are notable running CS2) - Within 10 mins you'll be looking at the ground with the mouse pointer on your secondary monitor.

Furthermore, running gamescope doesn't fix the problem - And yes, I'm running the correct commands under gamescope.

I mean - This is basic functionality that should be an integral part of any modern OS. Under X11 running the same dual matched monitors everything works perfectly with great FPS.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

i deleted the x session files so they don't show up in my greeter. They got annoying by now, for me. I used to shit on wayland, but it's inching closer and closer to being usable. and i use an nvidia gtx 1080, so that's saying something

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[-] vala@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I wish Nvidia agreed.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

I dunno why but I can't even log into KDE when I select wayland. The screen just turns black and unresponsive :(

Something similar happens to me on my desktop (debian 13) - it goes black then brings me back to the login screen. But in my case it's probably the nvidia drivers (proprietary). Not certain, though. Still happy on X11 for the meantime.

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[-] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I have a shitload of bug/weird behavior with Wayland, I hope it gets better but for me it is not there yet.

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[-] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Here is some of them (they are all intermitent) :

  • Wrong sensitivity with the mouse
  • wrong tiling of my windows with multiple screens, (like I do a full screen and the window will disapear or occupy half of the bottom of the screen for example.
  • black screen after coming out of sleep
  • some gtk applicatipn have random widgets not working (but some do in the same window/frame...)
  • sometimes when I try to share my screen with a native wayland app it just goes to black (and sharing with an X app I have to select two times what I want to share on top of in the app)
  • sometimes sub menus are just misplaced
  • some of my appimages gets broken with wayland
  • some x apps are blurry

I forget a lot, but it's a lot of minor issues that piles up and gets frustrating

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