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.

  • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
    4·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • daq@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    8 months ago

    I’ve switched nearly all my computers to Linux with wayland in the past 2 years with the last device coming over in the last couple of months.

    I run a headless fedora/kde /wayland gaming desktop (with a nvidia GPU) which I use exclusively over steam links dotted around the house. That took a bit of tinkering tbh but flawless operation since. Edit: Turns out its actually still on Xorg. Still some work to do here getting this moved over. I forget why I didn’t stick but must’ve been some combination of headless and steam link streams

    I use arch/hyprland on my daily driver laptop and arch/sway on my work laptop.

    The wifes laptop is also fedora/KDE on wayland.

  • xycu@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Tried Wayland about 5 years ago to see what all the hype was about, with Nvidia proprietary drivers, got a black screen. Could never get beyond that. Went back to xorg.

    Tried about 3 or 4 years ago, with amdgpu drivers, no black screen this time but chrome would not work and a few other programs didn’t work right or at all. There may have been special builds or wrappers to work around some of those issues but I had no interest in dealing with that at the time, so I went back to xorg.

    Have not felt motivated to try again as I haven’t had any issues with xorg. I’m using Nvidia drivers at the moment. I also heavily use turbovnc server with virtual gl and not sure how (or if) that’d work in combination with Wayland.

    I haven’t had to even think about the fact I’m using xorg or screw around with the configuration in like 10 or 15 years. It just works, for me and my setup, anyway.

  • doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    8 months ago

    My Thinkpad touchscreens were useless until I switched to wayland.

    The only drawback is I have to manually edit the qgis desktop file to start qgis with x11 instead of Wayland. I had to do the same to a couple other random experimental apps, too.

  • MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org
    1·
    8 months ago

    Been on it for about a year now, both with my desktop’s A770 and my laptop’s AMD iGPU. Experience has been pretty much flawless.

  • antihumanitarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    3 or 4 years, including on Nvidia machines. I’ll admit it took fiddling to get working awhile ago. Nowadays I use my desktops AMD iGPU as the main display driver and offload the rendering to the Nvidia card for intense programs or games, best of both worlds.

  • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    8 months ago

    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

  • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    I was using it on a new work machine, it was fine.

    The main issue is all the good tiling wms are X11 based and I don’t really want to use a wayland version of i3. I want some dynamic tiling goodies.

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
    0·
    8 months ago

    I’ve got three hard problems preventing me from using Wayland (sway/wlroots) right now:

    1. No global shortcuts for applications, especially legacy applications; I need teamspeak3 to be able to read my PTT keys in any application. Yes I know that could be used to keylog (the default should be off) but let me make that decision.
    2. Button to pixel latency is significantly worse. I don’t need V-Sync in the terminal or Emacs. Let me use immediate presentation in those applications.
    3. VRR is weird. I’d love if desktop apps were V-sync’d via VRR but the way it currently works is that apps make the display go down to 48Hz (because they don’t refresh) but the refresh rate never goes up when typing; further exacerbating button to pixel delay.
      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
        0·
        8 months ago

        If I can get the portal to just forward every keypress (or a configurable subset) to an xwayland window, that’d work for me. (I am aware of the security implications.)

        • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          8 months ago

          I’m not an expert, but my understanding of the Global Shortcuts portal is that it’s very much designed for the push-to-talk use case where an app is not focused but still receives button events for exactly the keys its interested in and no other keys: I think this would cause problems if an app requested every key (e.g. if the request was approved then no keys would work in every other app)

          It’ll be interesting to see how the remaining compatibility/accessibility issues are tackled, either in portals or in wayland protocols

          • Atemu@lemmy.ml
            1·
            8 months ago

            Yeah and that’s great but my point is that I don’t see an obvious way to use it for that in its current implementation. I’m sure you could build it but it’s simply not built yet.

    • Mereo@lemmy.ca
      3·
      8 months ago

      For NVIDIA users, that’s the right answer. For AMD users, it’s already ready. No problems here (6700xt)

      • penquin@lemm.ee
        1·
        8 months ago

        All AMD here and I can’t have it as a daily driver. So many issues made me hate my PC. Back to X11.

      • balancedchaos@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, it was ready for my old AMD machine. My new Nvidia box…nah.

        But since I’ve switched to XFCE, I don’t need to worry so much about new-fangled things like Wayland…for now.