If not on Wayland, what’s stopping you?

  • Jure Repinc@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m on Wayland on all computers. The main pain point I have with Wayland at this moment is the lack of session save/restore (remembering which windows were open and saving their state on logout, and restoring all on login). All of the computers are powered by AMD graphics cards and KDE Plasma desktop.

    • blackberries33@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I did not know wayland was lacking this feature until recently when I switched to wayland on my work computer. So long as I know stuff won’t be restored, I can plan ahead now.

  • sporif@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Wayland on my ryzen laptop, Xorg on my Nvidia pc. There are just too many things missing with Nvidia, such as Gsync, gamma control, overclocking and fan control.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    3·
    2 years ago

    X because when I try selecting Wayland from sddm the screen goes black and then takes me back to sddm. I’m on manjaro and I’ve done no configuration and I’ve not attempted to install Wayland I just assume because it’s an option in my drop down that it’s been installed.

  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    2 years ago

    X, because honestly my screen works and don’t currently need to replace the server behind it.

    • Bacteria@lemmy.oneOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      I understand and X works fine for a lot od people but do remember the number of developers maintaining it have been dropping year on year. No harm in trying IMO. If you are on Plasma or Gnome, you get a simple switcher on the login screen.

      • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
        0·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I know X is really showing its age.

        I have to add that the switcher is not on Debian 12 by default, where Wayland support for Plasma is optional in plasma-workspace-wayland. Also, it is broken on Nvidia due to missing packages/libraries and Nvidia’s proprietary driver still in general not supporting Wayland properly.

          • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            2 years ago

            Because you installed it, or because 12 now gives both via tasksel (or Debian setup). My system is from Debian 10

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m using X because on Wayland windows sometimes disappear from view. I can’t even blame Nvidia because I’m all Intel.

  • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    2 years ago

    Despite having an nvidia card, i use wayland and deal with the glitches cause once you’ve gotten a taste you can’t go back

  • packetloss@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    Currently on X. Mostly because out of the box Wayland doesn’t work with my nVidia card. I know there are solutions available to make it work, but I haven’t had the time to try them, and honestly X is working just fine for me. Not sure what benefits I’d see by switching to Wayland.

  • thenextfrontier@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I use wayland on my laptop running GNOME, and I haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. I recognize that people’s hardware is a big deciding factor on if it works this well or not though…

    • Bacteria@lemmy.oneOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yup. I am myself running Plasma Wayland on 2 laptops (both Ryzen APUs) for over an year now. Seems like Nvidia is the biggest limiting factor.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
    1·
    2 years ago

    Wayland!
    It has advanced a lot lately, I’ve been daily driving it for months now with no issues, compared to a couple of Plasma versions ago where it would break itself in 5 minutes lol.
    Only thing I’m missing is a good remote access solution. I’m currently making do with Sunshine + Moonlight but it has the very annoying bug of not showing the mouse cursor.

    Edit: lol just realized this post is 1 month old. Really looking forward to Lemmy fixing this bug.

  • Efwis@lemmy.zip
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m on X atm. Wayland works, but it stops some configs from working properly. For example I have endeavour set up to not only notify me of updates, but I can click on the icon in the tray and it will start the update on X, where on Wayland the tray icon doesn’t show so I have to manually update my system. I like the simplistic click and go the tray icon offers me. This is just one feature I run into problems with. I don’t run NVIDIA so I don’t have the compatibility issue with that.

  • kotatsuyaki@beehaw.org
    0·
    2 years ago

    Wayland on most machines, X11 on my desktop with Nvidia GPU. On all my non-Nvidia machines, Wayland works great. The screens tear less, and the gestures are more responsive.

    I try out Plasma Wayland with Nvidia GPU from time to time, but last time I tried (a few months ago), there were still some showstoppers. For example:

    1. KRunner hangs and can’t be opened again.
    2. Panel freezes visually.
    3. Pipewire screen sharing results in a black canvas.
  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    11·
    2 years ago

    X11 because what we really needed was X12 but instead we threw the baby out with the bath water.