Hey guys, what are the pros and cons to wayland if I intend to use my PC for gaming + others?

Comparisons to X?

General impressions?

Your advice on if I should use it or stick with X?

My PC parts are arriving soon, and while Ive been a linux user since 2016 its the first time I intend to fully main drive linux, so I guess im just looking for as much information as I can get on it.

Feel free to post links to articles or anything that will answer if you prefer, we’re on a link aggregator after all ;) and I dont mind reading.

Thanks in advance :)

  • champe20
    4•1 year ago

    Wayland has a ton of issues on Plasma including but not limited to (Not including NVIDIA Issues) (Note that many of these will be fixed in Plasma 6):

    • Applications don’t prompt to save unsaved work, causing data loss
    • No session restore for native Wayland windows
    • When the compositor crashes or restarts, non-Qt apps are killed — work is ongoing to fix this
    • Not all Sticky Keys options work
    • No color management or support for changing Gamma
    • KFontView is unable to open or install a font
    • Session-restored windows go on the wrong screens and virtual desktops
    • When dragging files, to trigger a specific result, you have to hold down a modifier key before you start dragging, not after
    • Installed Chrome apps are grouped together with Chrome windows in Icon-Only Task Manager
    • Global Menu is broken for non-Qt apps
    • When using a Chromium-based browser in native Wayland mode, dragging an image to the desktop creates a sticky note out of it
    • @Nuuskis@sopuli.xyz
      1•1 year ago

      I used to use Global Menu stil 2 years and it was a mess. For me, Wayland is a gift from gods. The screen tearing went away and it feels more snappier. When I rarely need an external monitor, gone is the need of xrandr-plumbing to make different resolutions to work.