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Wayland pros and cons? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

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

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Hey guys, what are the pros and cons to wayland if I intend to use my PC for gaming + others?

Comparisons to X?

General impressions?

Your advice on if I should use it or stick with X?

My PC parts are arriving soon, and while Ive been a linux user since 2016 its the first time I intend to fully main drive linux, so I guess im just looking for as much information as I can get on it.

Feel free to post links to articles or anything that will answer if you prefer, we're on a link aggregator after all ;) and I dont mind reading.

Thanks in advance :)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

distro: just look at my instance xD

Its a full AMD build, so I shouldnt have any issues with the green goblin

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve had great experience with AMD GPUs on Wayland. Unless you run into specific issues, I don’t see a downside of running Wayland. With NVIDIA, chances are you will run into issues very quickly, unfortunately…

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

Then you should just try it out. If it doesn't work for you, you can easily switch back from your login screen.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Try Manjaro Sway. Wayland can't get any better than with Sway. Of you prefer to not read the docs and confog by yourself, then go with KDE. Literally zero reasons to use xorg anymore. I've used Sway 2-3 months after dwm and regret a lot I didn't switch earlier to Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wayland has a ton of issues on Plasma including but not limited to (Not including NVIDIA Issues) (Note that many of these will be fixed in Plasma 6):

Applications don't prompt to save unsaved work, causing data loss
No session restore for native Wayland windows
When the compositor crashes or restarts, non-Qt apps are killed — work is ongoing to fix this
Not all Sticky Keys options work
No color management or support for changing Gamma
KFontView is unable to open or install a font
Session-restored windows go on the wrong screens and virtual desktops
When dragging files, to trigger a specific result, you have to hold down a modifier key before you start dragging, not after
Installed Chrome apps are grouped together with Chrome windows in Icon-Only Task Manager
Global Menu is broken for non-Qt apps
When using a Chromium-based browser in native Wayland mode, dragging an image to the desktop creates a sticky note out of it

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

I used to use Global Menu stil 2 years and it was a mess. For me, Wayland is a gift from gods. The screen tearing went away and it feels more snappier. When I rarely need an external monitor, gone is the need of xrandr-plumbing to make different resolutions to work.