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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Yes. I’ve used X11 for far too long to have any rose tinted glasses for the piece of fucking broken shit it always was. a LOT of people don’t realize how many hacks, workarounds and sheer tears and duct tape goes into making the piece of shit render the smallest line on the screen.
That’s also why Phoronix comment section neckbeards are so infuriating for me. They talk like X.Org works like at all.
Zero issues for me. Been daily driving it for years. Play Steam games regularly, but have not tried switching to X. Performance on Windows is MUCH better with my 1080ti playing D4, but I’m prefectly content with preformance on Linux and don’t want to keep switching.
Ye, since Plasma 5.24 I think. Used to occasionally switch to X11 for competitive gaming, but as of Plasma 6 their Wayland compositor supports fullscreen tearing, so now I have no need to use X11 anymore
Since I switched to AMD about a month ago. Literally every naggling issue I had with NVidia is gone. Only complaint is that I didn’t switch sooner.
Started my Linux journey with Wayland 1.5 years ago and haven’t used X11 at all.
Oh, you’ve been missing out on a lot of “fun” 😄
I will daily drive Wayland when it becomes Xorg function equivalent e.g. functional screen capture and overlays like every other OS (so never)
nah man, gotta be more specific. When those stuff work on every application.
A screen reader protocol for blind people that requires the app to be recompiled and opt-in to being accessible to accessibility tools, is not a replacement for one that worked for every application. Old apps will become impossible to use for some people with accessibility issues. Though wayland fanboys would tell you to shut up and be happy that a protocol exists, while failing to acknowledge that the protocol is literally fucking useless by design.
Yeah. Wayland is a nightmare of accessibility and as someone privileged to be able-bodied it can be tragically easy to forget.
Hopefully this Wayland fad goes away and we have a better protocol designed from scratch soon.
I’ll adopt it when it’s ready.
For NVIDIA users, that’s the right answer. For AMD users, it’s already ready. No problems here (6700xt)
I’ll switch to wayland when it runs better than X. And that isn’t the case for now.
I’ve been using Hyprland for about 2 years. I did have some issues with screen sharing (teams, discord) and some steam games (non native, with proton) need some extra launch parameters, but they all work now. Over time I was able to fix all the little issues. For me Hyprland is a daily driver, but I like to tinker. I can see how this is not for everyone.
May I ask how you solved the screen sharing problems? Also do you use keybinds for apps such as discord? When I tried Hyprland none of them were working.
Hey, sorry for the late reply.
I remember installing
xdg-desktop-portal-hyprlandinstead ofxdg-desktop-portal, and in myhyprlandconfig I have:exec-once = dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP exec-once = systemctl --user import-environment WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOPI can’t remember everything I tried… I didn’t keep track. I’ve been using this setup for close to 3 years now…
I know that for Ferdium I used the extra params
--ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform, but I think it doesn’t need them anymore (I use it for Teams and other chat apps with screensharing).For Discord I use Webcord, which works just fine, also with screen sharing, I didn’t have to do anything.
When it comes to key bindings, here’s my working setup:
# binds $mainMod = SUPER $lock = playerctl --player=mpd,firefox,mpv -a pause ; ~/.config/hypr/scripts/swaylock bind = $mainMod, Q, killactive, bind = $mainMod SHIFT, Q, exit, bind = $mainMod, X, exec, $lock # lock bind = $mainMod, RETURN, exec, alacritty bind = $mainMod SHIFT, RETURN, exec, alacritty -t scratchpad --class scratchpad bind = $mainMod, E, exec, nemo bind = $mainMod, W, exec, firefox bind = $mainMod, R, exec, rofi -show drun --allow-images bind = $mainMod SHIFT, E, exec, wofi-emoji bind = $mainMod, P, pseudo, # dwindle bind = $mainMod SHIFT, Space, togglefloating, bind = $mainMod, F, fullscreen, 1 # maximize window bind = $mainMod SHIFT, F, fullscreen, 0 # fullscreen bind = $mainMod, S, exec, grim -g "$(slurp)" - | wl-copy # screenshot selection to clipboard bind = $mainMod SHIFT, S, exec, grim -g "$(slurp)" - | swappy -f - # screenshot selection and open in swappy bind = $mainMod SHIFT, R, exec, wf-recorder -a -g "$(slurp)" -f "${HOME}/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%m-%s).mkv" -c h264_vaapi -d /dev/dri/renderD128 &>/dev/null # screenrecord bind = ,XF86AudioMute, exec, pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle binde = ,XF86AudioLowerVolume, exec, pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -2% binde = ,XF86AudioRaiseVolume, exec, pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +2% bind = ,XF86AudioMicMute, exec, pactl set-source-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle binde = ,XF86MonBrightnessUp, exec, light -A 5 binde = ,XF86MonBrightnessDown, exec, light -U 5 # resize windows binde = $mainMod, left, resizeactive, -40 0 binde = $mainMod, right, resizeactive, 40 0 binde = $mainMod, up, resizeactive, 0 -40 binde = $mainMod, down, resizeactive, 0 40 # move focus bind = $mainMod, h, movefocus, l bind = $mainMod, l, movefocus, r bind = $mainMod, k, movefocus, u bind = $mainMod, j, movefocus, d # move windows bind = $mainMod SHIFT, h, movewindow, l bind = $mainMod SHIFT, l, movewindow, r bind = $mainMod SHIFT, k, movewindow, u bind = $mainMod SHIFT, j, movewindow, d # switch workspaces bind = $mainMod, 1, workspace, 1 bind = $mainMod, 2, workspace, 2 bind = $mainMod, 3, workspace, 3 bind = $mainMod, 4, workspace, 4 bind = $mainMod, 5, workspace, 5 bind = $mainMod, 6, workspace, 6 bind = $mainMod, 7, workspace, 7 bind = $mainMod, 8, workspace, 8 bind = $mainMod, 9, workspace, 9 bind = $mainMod, 0, workspace, 10 # move windows to workspace without switching (silent) bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 1, movetoworkspacesilent, 1 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 2, movetoworkspacesilent, 2 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 3, movetoworkspacesilent, 3 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 4, movetoworkspacesilent, 4 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 5, movetoworkspacesilent, 5 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 6, movetoworkspacesilent, 6 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 7, movetoworkspacesilent, 7 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 8, movetoworkspacesilent, 8 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 9, movetoworkspacesilent, 9 bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 0, movetoworkspacesilent, 10 # move/resize windows with LMB/RMB bindm = $mainMod, mouse:272, movewindow bindm = $mainMod, mouse:273, resizewindow # scroll through existing workspaces bind = $mainMod, mouse_down, workspace, e+1 bind = $mainMod, mouse_up, workspace, e-1 # switch workspace with mouse back/fw buttons bind = $mainMod, mouse:276, workspace, m+1 bind = $mainMod, mouse:275, workspace, m-1 bind = $mainMod SHIFT,up,focusmonitor,u bind = $mainMod SHIFT,down,focusmonitor,d binde = $mainMod, TAB, workspace, previous
Why I’m not using it:
- worse performance (Nvidia)
- couldn’t get screen sharing and recording to work
- unfinished or abandoned alternatives to xorg tools (swhkd for example)
Made me think maybe people aren’t actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community.
Take the community with a grain of salt; It’s made up of the same type of people that say Arch is a stable distro that never has any issues.
Some distros are pushing it aggressively (Fedora for example), so use them as a more accurate gauge. If Fedora doesn’t accept the proposal to start phasing out xorg, you can know for sure it doesn’t have the conversion rates they’re hoping for.
I think the Xorg vs Wayland situation is not too dissimilar to that of Windows vs Linux. Lots of people are waiting for all of their games/software work (just as well or better) on Linux before switching. I believe that in most cases, switching to Linux requires that a person goes out of their way to either find alternatives to the software they use or altogether change the way they use their computer. It’s a hard sell for people who only use their computer to get their work done, and that’s why it is almost exclusively developers, tech-curious, idealists, government workers, and grandparents who switch to Linux (thanks to a family member who falls into any subset of the former categories). It may require another generation (of people) for X11 to be fully deprecated, because even amongst Linux users there are those who are not interested in changing their established workflow.
I do think it’s unreasonable to expect everything to work the same when a major component is being replaced. Some applications that are built with X11 in mind will never be ported/adapted to work on Wayland. It’s likely that for some things, no alternatives are ever going to exist.
Good news is that we humans are complex adaptive systems! Technology is always changing - that’s just the way of it. Sometimes that will lead to perceived loss of functionality, reduction in quality, or impeded workflow in the name of security, resource efficiency, moral/political reasons, or other considerations. Hopefully we can learn to accept such change, because that’ll be a virtue in times to come.
(This isn’t to say that it’s acceptable for userspace to be suddenly broken because contributors thought of a more elegant way to write underlying software. Luckily, X11 isn’t being deprecated anytime soon for just this reason.)
Ok I’m done rambling.
