About time. Wayland has worked great for several years on Intel and AMD systems. Nvidia is finally caring to catch up.
Its perpetually fixed the next common Xorg complaint, including disabling vsync, redirection outside of the DE for fullscreen apps, multi monitor scaling, fractional scaling, global keyboard shortcuts, a tiling wm implementation, HDR support, session restore, and soon remote access
The software that doesn’t support it and doesn’t want to support it will never adapt and have alternatives.
Its been ready, reliable, and a much better experience for so long. Ubuntu coming around is a testament to that.
I’ve been using Wayland since 2018 and not had any issues aside from when I briefly tested with an Nvidia card.
Wayland is more than ready for 99% of people, and has been for a while. Whenever I use Xorg it feels janky.
E: I also had issues with screen sharing, actually. I forgot about that because I rarely have to do it.
Isn’t Wayland the husband from Everything, Everwhere, All at Once?
I love wayland, but you can’t deny that it still lacks support and stability.
But maybe this is one of those chicken or the egg, maybe we need the transition to push the quality
I can absolutely deny that Wayland has stability issues. Plasma 6 under Wayland is the most stable desktop I have used.
In any Wayland discussion, I think people using Debian or older NVIDIA drivers (pre-555 for sure) need to identify themselves. They seem to be the ones most convinced that Wayland does not work yet (because they are still experiencing what it was like years ago).
As for “support”, that is desktop environment dependent as it mostly depends on protocol and XDG desktop portal maturity. KDE has the most complete support (not a bias-just a fact), then GNOME, then Hyprland and the Wlroots based environments, with MATE and Cinnamon not quite there yet, and XFCE totally trailing.
Tried wayland on arch with modern drivers on a few different DEs and everytime I eventually switched back to Xorg.
One simple example, manually configuring the resolution of a monitor with a mode that is “not compatible” with the monitor. Xorg does it pretty easily with xrandr, wayland seems to have no option for the user to do that.
Linux idiot here. What is wayland? And what is XOrg?
Two different frameworks for providing a graphical user interface. X is older.
Been using Ubuntu since 2008… looks like this will be the last year for me.
I’d be surprise if you notice the difference.
Other mainstream distros cannot even be installed by blind users because screen readers are broken on wayland
the ludwicks of Void Linux ftw!
i’d actually like to do something else with my lifetime besides constantly being tossed around for no apparent benefit. i’m sure there is a good excuse. There always is.