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Should I switch to Wayland? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey Community,

Since I just read a post about the X11 vs. Wayland situation I'm questioning if I should stay on X11, or switch to Wayland. Regarding this decision, I'm asking you for your opinions plus please answer me a few questions. I will put further information about my systems at the bottom.

What are the advantages of Wayland? What are the disadvantages?
I do mostly music production, programming, browsing, etc, but occasionally I'm back into gaming (on the desktop). How's performance there? Anything that might break?
what would be the best way to migrate?
why have/haven't you made the switch?

Desktop: Ryzen 3100, 16 Gig Ram, Rx 570 Arch Linux with KDE 144 hz Freesync Monitor and 60hz shitty monitor

laptop: Thinkpad L540 (iirc), i3 4100, 8 GB Ram intel uhd630 gfx (iirc) Arch Linux with heavily customized i3-gaps

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Basically none of your current software works out of the box (you'll need a special Xorg implementation that works with your Wayland implementation in order to run non-Wayland applications).

I've never seen any distro with Wayland that didn't have XWayland set up and working out of the box, so that's not something the end user needs to worry about. And "Basically None" is also not true anymore. Practically anything made with GTK3/4, Qt5/6, SDL2, recent Electron versions etc. natively runs on Wayland. It's mostly games, Wine and a lot of proprietary software that doesn't.

Most applications are specific to your Wayland implementation instead of a general application that runs in all environments.

Wdym by that exactly? I mean, a KDE application will run just fine on GNOME or Wlroots compositors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

XWayland doesn't mixed/high DPI properly anywhere but under KDE >= 5.26. On Void I found Plasma's Wayland implementation somewhat flakey and sway completely useless as it didn't handle scaling + xwayland.