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Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia).

I thought it was okay for the most part but then I had to switch to an X session recently. The experience felt about the same. Out of curiosity, I played a couple of games and realized they worked much better. Steam doesn't go nuts either.

Made me think maybe people aren't actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community. And that maybe I should just go back.

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[–] gentooer 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I switched to sway from i3 about 5 years ago. It's easier to configure (no /etc/X11 nonsense) and it fixed my screen tearing issue. I'm not much of a gamer, so can't comment on that. Supertuxkart and browser games work fine.

[–] gamma 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exact same. Sway's 1.0 release was March of 2019, and it did everything I needed.

Even playing games on my desktop, Xwayland worked fine for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is Sway like a Wayland equivalent of i3? That's the only thing really keeping me on X

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, sway presents itself as a drop-in replacement for i3 (just built on top of wayland instead of xorg).

I've used it on a Thinkpad laptop for close to 4 years, and on my desktop for the past 3.

The only problems I've encountered are some apps not being Wayland-compatible; xwayland makes the rendering work for those but then things like sharing a window or the entire screen don't always work. Notably, Discord's sharing doesn't work, but I can use OBS to record any entire screen since [the OBS devs] put in the work to properly support Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh interesting! I actually found Wayland to have a bit of an edge vs X. I just didn't like the Unity environment from Ubuntu so I've been using i3.

I'll have to give Sway a try