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Re: Replacing xorg with wayland

Reply #15 –
Everyone is going to have their own unique experience here. I've been running SwayWM on wayland for almost 6 years now & it's been a really great experience for me. Before I was running i3 on X11. I love that Artix lets us choose what we want to use, unlike other distros that make that decision for all their users.

Re: Replacing xorg with wayland

Reply #16 –
Quote from: gripped – on
Devil's advocate  :P

I read plenty of "Wayland almost works now, so long as I decide not to to do some things I used to be able to" type posts.

What are the actual advantages of Wayland ? How is it better than X ?

A couple I see are:
X is unmaintained - It isn't.
Wayland is new - So is covid, I'd still sooner catch a cold no matter how old fashioned that is.

What are some tangible advantages ?


For me, wayland was just one of those forced changes to entertain young people who don't know any better.

Re: Replacing xorg with wayland

Reply #17 –
Quote from: Hurricane – on
I'm not sure it's the "better" solution yet.

I've just switched my last machine back to X11 (plasmax11).
Since the switch to Wayland I've got issues with Steam and Kodi (among others but these were really annoying).
On one of my machines I could not use "barrier" anymore (which is kind of expected when you think about it.)
I'll wait for a while yet before considering the switch again.


Interestingly, I had the opposite experience with Steam, it was entirely unresponsive (and often rendering just a black window) when I was using X11 i3 and lxqt, but now seems to be working perfectly under wayland with sway and plasma.