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Wayland usage in the Linux community

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Do you use Wayland?  

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  1. 1. Do you use Wayland?

    • I haven't logged into an X11 session in months, only ever use Wayland
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    • I daily drive Wayland
      4
    • I sometimes use Wayland
      0
    • I infrequently login to a Wayland session
      2
    • I know about Wayland, but don't use it
      7
    • I've heard of Wayland, but hardly know much about it
      3
    • What's Wayland?
      2

  2. 2. If you do use Wayland, do you rely on XWayland for some apps?

    • Yes, XWayland works well for the most part
      4
    • Yes, but XWayland has issues
      1
    • No
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Also, which distro and desktop environment or window manager are you using?

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I stopped to care about Wayland some time ago. In a certain sense it is like IPv6. It promises the world, but takes too much time/effort to get it to work. So it seems to never take off and/or the transition period is just way too long.

 

When I installed my distro ages ago it still defaulted to X11. I tried to switch to Wayland a few times. Didn't work (black screen). X11 continue to work just fine, so meh. When I get a new computer and do a fresh install I may give it another go but right now I simply don't care enough to try again.

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I've wanted to try it out for some time now, triple screens should be a bit nicer with it but I haven't and I don't see myself messing around with my desktops config for a while.

 

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its really easy to figure out:

 

gnome users + KDE users

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5 hours ago, TheJooomes said:

Also, which distro and desktop environment or window manager are you using?

Manjaro KDE

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Fedora Workstation (GNOME + Wayland) on the laptop

Arch Linux with KDE Plasma + X.Org on the Desktops.

 

Wayland still isn't really well adopted. While XWayland works for the most part, it has limitations imposed by Wayland mainly surrounding security concerns.

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On 11/8/2020 at 8:32 AM, TheJooomes said:

Also, which distro and desktop environment or window manager are you using?

Ubutnu Groovy Gorilla, Wayland session. It doesn't quite work with my NVIDIA dGPU, but `sudo prime-select intel` helps out on that front. Well, it did until I removed `/usr/libexec/gdm-disable-wayland`, as that was what was forcing any other PRIME profile to only show the X11 se. I only ever need the power of the iGPU, except for CUDA in Blender, which works fine in Wayland as well (Blender is surprisingly performant on tenth-generation Iris graphics).

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