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    [–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

    I've considered switching several times in the past, but each time there was something I needed that was not supported (e.g. - this issue with Zoom screen sharing)

    In the last of these times I found no such dealbreaker, but I did want to try a dualboot setup - or dual-login, actually, because I should be able to switch at the greeter - first, to make sure I'm not breaking anything I need for work. This required switching from LightDM to a display manager that supports both X11 and Wayland. I don't remeber which one I've chosen, but I do remember having hard time installing it (I think I couldn't get it to launch i3 for whatever reason)

    I've just checked and is seems LightDM supports Wayland now, so maybe it's time to try the switch again. Being able to use my current DM means I'm not going to risk breaking anything. Probably.

    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    I just don't want to switch out my window manager and all the helper programs that make it work as a full desktop. Currently I just use LXQt+i3wm, and LXQt will take quite a while until it's anywhere near feature parity with Wayland, and AFAIK i3wm doesn't even have plans for a Wayland port (though I know that there's decently similar tiling WMs for Wayland). I don't think any of the oldschool low-resource-intensity desktop environments I'd consider using have a decently feature-complete Wayland port right now.

    It's possible that it's not actually that much work to cobble together a new configuration with a Wayland-compatible tiling WM and a bunch of separate applications for screenshots, clipboard management etc., but I currently don't care to find out.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

    Sway is build to he a drop in replacement for i3

    [–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

    I will happily switch over once libinput isn't absolute ass with my touchpad! Or if I could adjust its settings in any meaningful way!! Or if you could let me use my old touchpad driver!!!

    Until then you can attempt to pry x11 from my cold undead still-animated hands

    [–] Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

    Idk, especially when using the most recent version of Wayland compositors, it's been great. Solved my display and touchpad issues.

    I did have some Nvidia issues but that shouldn't be surprising regardless of display protocol.

    But like... use whatever software you want. Worst case you can always just nest a minimal Wayland compositor like cage or gamescope in your X session.

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    when endeavour switched over to wayland my session just completely stopped working. couldn't get past the login screen. had to reinstall xorg from tty. not touching that again until i get new hardware.

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    [–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I'll switch when it fucking saves session data. It's still not ready for mainstream.

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    [–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Yeah, so, switching to wayland still break copy/paste from terminal apps, still requires me to disable all hardware acceleration lest firefox freeze and plasma's effects are visually broken, and it randomly swap my screen on each boot.

    Meanwhile, no issue at all on X. I'll still wait a bit.

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    [–] Limonene@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I just need xdotool. ydotool is missing almost everything. I don't need programs sandboxed from each other. I don't need that multi-DPI stuff (200% scaling works fine in X). Wayland doesn't provide any features I'm missing.

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    [–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    I prefer Wayland over X11, but Cinnamon doesn't support it yet as stable

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    [–] jcr@jlai.lu 6 points 1 week ago

    Problem with Wayland, is the liability of being to not able the use of some software, and not being able to foresee it.

    X11 is also working well, and a lot of the "issues" people have with it is more about hearsay than real issues.

    This is the reason why we have distro diversity: we can choose ! And laugh at innocent memes either way we feel about it

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

    The older you get the more unnatural new tech feels

    Wayland changes the core ideas behind the desktop

    [–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

    This is what I am going to think about every time I am being stubborn and refusing to move until all my demands are met. "I shouldn't back down, I'm Christopher fuckin' Walken!"

    [–] Acidbath@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    rstudio and octave is holding me back T_T

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    [–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Im on boring mint, and Wayland sucks on it. Literally disables my ctrl and shift keys, and volume keys, and backgrounds are only black. Unusable. And I have all amd, 13 year old cpu. Oh and it screws up video playback

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    [–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 week ago

    Yeah I tried it for XFCE yesterday*, noticed a few things I wanted weren't there (because XFWM isn't ported over) and promptly switched back. Didn't seem to me like it was more responsive or anything like that**.

    But I am still using a 1050Ti, so who knows. That also kind of kills my interest in the idea even if I didn't have fixed-if-you-use-this-specific-DE type issues. I also don't really like the idea of CSD.

    * after looking up that labwc not being installed was why the session wouldn't launch before

    ** entirely possible it is better in very specific scenarios, but the screen tearing that I see on X11 is diagonal (like the screen is 2 triangles, desynced) and honestly I don't even know the exact game to test (as I don't see tearing in videos or any other usage as far as I know)

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