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submitted 9 months ago by headroom@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 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

[-] prey169@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Gsync doesn't work yet so... Not yet for me.

Also, they need to fix the load apps in last location like X has

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I'm on AMD, so I've been on Wayland since around 2021. Haven't really experienced any issues.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

I had it on a test system and Chrome/Chromium wasn't happy. Slow af. Dunno if it had an impact on Firefox, but that used a lot of RAM and was very slow when sharing the screen.

At least Waydroid worked flawlessly 👍

For now, I'm back on X11 where I game. I'll just wait for it come by default on major distros ("stable"), wait a little longer (stable for real) and then switch once nothing on my system needs "XWayland" or whatever. wine does AFAIK, so at least due to that, no Wayland for me.

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[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz -1 points 9 months ago

I'll switch to wayland when it runs better than X. And that isn't the case for now.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I will daily drive Wayland when it becomes Xorg function equivalent e.g. functional screen capture and overlays like every other OS (so never)

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