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Will wayland ever be ready?

Hi,
Will wayland ever be ready?
Wayland on my laptop, has this horrible screen flickering issue that prevent me from using it.
It's a netbook with intel celeron and intel graphics with a TN panel.

My desktop has a rtx 3060 graphics card from nvidia.
For a long time, nvidia didn't work at all.

I've been waiting for so long.
DWL (dwm for wayland ) is still extremely buggy.
And most standalone wayland compositors are still in pet project alpha stages of development. Except hyprland.
Not a single wayland compositor supports keychords. An important feature that i cannot live without.
Something both xmonad and dwm supports.

So, when will we all just switch to wayland? And have things 'just work', without xwayland api shim?
In 10 years? Until the heat dead of the universe?

Re: Will wayland ever be ready?

Reply #1 –
I've tried many times to get a usable openbox like dm using wayland. I think eventually labwc might be able to do so see here.

So far I have not migrated to wayland though.

I don't see any great advantage yet and I know almost exactly how to get X11 to do what I want.  A lot of articles talk about performance and security and newer features, but I'm not that impressed. I;m certainly too old to start using gestures etc etc.

Can you say exactly what is the benefit for you?

Re: Will wayland ever be ready?

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Quote from: awky – on

So, when will we all just switch to wayland? And have things 'just work', without xwayland api shim?
In 10 years? Until the heat dead of the universe?

It will take a long time to wait. For a very long time. But it is better to wait a long time and get a quality product than to get quickly and fight with bugs.

Re: Will wayland ever be ready?

Reply #3 –
Wayland has made progress, but it's still not perfect, especially for setups like yours with keychords or certain hardware. Nvidia support has improved a lot recently, but it’s not flawless either. I think we’re still a few years away from Wayland being a full replacement for X, especially for niche use cases like DWL or keychords.

Re: Will wayland ever be ready?

Reply #4 –
Never is my own opinion.
I think it's more likely that something else will be created that replaces X than that Wayland ever will.
Wayland is flawed in too many ways imho. Although it has its uses. Using Gamescope I'm finally able to play Elite Dangerous on triple monitors. Wayland in X tricks the game into believing the screen is 5760x1080.

It's a similar answer to "When will ipv6 fully replace ipv4".

 

Re: Will wayland ever be ready?

Reply #5 –
Systemd-free and Wayland are among the reasons I moved to Artix. My previous (non-systemd) distro was having difficulties with Wayland. We could only launch it via TTY.

Artix provided a good compromise with elogind.

YMMV but insofar my UX with Artix has been a pleasant one.
S6/Plasma