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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] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody's requiring it until devs start not supporting X11 anymore and start saying things like "won't fix, use Wayland". Which is already happening

See: GNOME's response to a critical GTK4 bug on x11 that makes any program using GTK4 unusable on certain devices under x11

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

I think that's a little bit premature for GNOME to do, though I have to ask, what "certain devices" are we talking about?

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

certain hardware configurations. I have two computers on linux. One of them has issues with GTK4, the other one doesn't. The only difference between these machines is hardware.

And yeah, I agree that's premature for them to do

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

certain hardware configurations. I have two computers on linux. One of them has issues with GTK4, the other one doesn’t. The only difference between these machines is hardware.

Right, what are the "certain hardware" configurations? Are they really old? Are they really niche?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

if I knew what exactly was causing it hardware wise I would have a way to fix it, and I don't

given GNOME's solution is "use Wayland" (which I can't for a variety of reasons) I don't think I can ever figure out what the problem is. Their attitude from the start is already non helpful.

all I know is my hardware isn't niche nor really really old. And Im not the only one experiencing this