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.
Yes. Since 2013 or so, if I remember correctly. Gnome 3.10.
i’ll probably jump the next time i change window managers or distros… i havent a reason to currently
When? Since Ubuntu made it the default for non Nvidia PCs
Mid 2022, when i swapped my nvidia card to an AMD one. Instantly switched to Wayland (KDE Plasma) and stayed there.
Yes, on my laptop where it works well and it allows for nice fractional scaling.
It works on my desktop too but I can’t stand vsync while playing CS so it’s Xorg for now.
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
Interested to hear you use it with Nvidia - I was led to understand it didn’t play well with Nvidia.
I’m going to give it a try and see how it goes with my card.
I can only speak for the desktop, not laptops, when I say it works perfectly on Gnome and KDE and even Hyprland which doesn’t even officially support Nvidia hardware. That said, for the first time in two years I started having big issues with a few games (though, I don’t play a large number of games so take this with a grain of salt). Right now, I have an xorg session on the side to play those games. Although, I’m starting to notice it’s missing some things from Wayland that I’ve gotten accustomed to.
Wayland is expected to get much, much better when the 555 drivers drop explicit support in May and when proton enables the wine wayland drivers.
Wayland has been very stable for me since 2021, never went back to X.
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.
I use Wayland since I got a second monitor, since X can’t handle mixed DPI. I’d use X otherwise, since global hotkeys work there
I’ve been using wayland almost exclusively since 2020 because x-org doesn’t support multi refresh rate setups and it was driving me nuts to have everything run at 60hz. It’s been pretty smooth sailing because I use an AMD gpu. I have to admit that steam is indeed a lot buggier under wayland, I try to use gamescope for every game as that fixes most problems I have with them. My hope is that proton will use wayland for most games by the end of this or next year.
A couple years(ish) on intel-only laptops. I run it with KDE Plasma. I only think about it when I see a thread like this one.
For me it Just Works™. I recognize that being intel-only may be a contributing factor, and my certification of Just Works™ is not to imply dismissal of any problems others may be having. 🙂
I am dependent on a couple of programs I run via wine - and wine still isn’t directly compatible with wayland and buggy with xwayland…
I though wine merged their wayland drivers?
Seems to be behind an experimental flag at the moment but making great progress.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/what-to-expect-from-wine-on-wayland-in-2024/
Gretlat that they’re making progress! aTM windows still flicker or fail to show content. I’d love to use it in production later this year maybe …
