I really want to run wayland but there are still some missing bits required for my workflow. Of particular importance to me, the ability to connect to RustDesk auto-launched on a headless server, and clipboard sharing in DeskFlow. My understanding is that these are still broken only because the devs are still waiting for wayland back-end additions to be implemented.
I’m all for wayland, but they need to catch up first.
Not sure how your clipboard is broken, it works using KDE connect. DeskFlow may need to work on implementing the Wayland bits.
I also switched to Wayland when the news came X11 would go away. It just sucks they aren’t fixing all the input issues on Wayland, especially since I’m using touchpad most of the time.
95% on Wayland is a bit hard to believe, 100% of KDE users I know both use X11.
Well, now you know one who doesn’t and hasn’t for years
And now two! Touchpads work like a dream for me
100% of kde users I know use wayland. Which is roughly only a few thousand to be fair.
Hah, every time I try to switch to Wayland on my Debian 13 desktop I end up going back to X11. Wayland ultimately feels slower and more sluggish compared to X11 almost like a regression that occurs over time, applications that work on X11 may not work on Wayland and in my situation open but display a blank screen and, recently learned MangoHud that ships with Debian 13 has issues capturing the GPU usage while running games.
so if everyone in the world used kde, “only” the usa would be on x11.
meanwhile i still get random blackouts, frame rate desyncs, and sleep mode crashes when running wayland.
Are you on plasma 6.6?
Also “The metrics also show that basically no one is testing or developing Plasma on X11 anymore. The platform was already, for all intents and purposes, abandoned by KDE contributors.” There just isn’t the man power to keep supporting it
i know all the reasons that switching to wayland is imperative for the distros. i also know that it still has massive gaps in the implementation that are required of a working desktop, like accessibility. it’s been almost 20 years and yet here we are.
I think I’m on Wayland and it’s been fine?
happy for you.
Ty!
He’s being sarcastic
I know. He wants to complain and isn’t interested in anything contrary to that.
so if everyone in the world used kde, “only” the usa would be on x11
you’re right, they shouldn’t support imperial measurements
Not to mention still absolute crap support from commercial software.
Looking at you,
VMwareBroadcomOmnissa.Interesting, what hardware do you run?
I haven’t used Plasma for any significant length of time since 5.27. Coincidentally, the first major version of Plasma where Wayland was actually daily drivable for me, previous versions would have at least one desktop crash a day.
But my experience on Gnome Wayland has always been good. At least, better than X11, even on NVIDIA before the Wayland compatibility was “good”. Don’t remember exactly dates or version umbers, but it was shortly after it got hardware accelerated Xwayland and before NVIDIA added GBM support. And when I switched to AMD, it only got smoother and more stable.
And recently have been trying out labwc/wlroots and it’s been a very stable experience too.
i mean it’s better now, used to not be able to show the greeter. when i set this machine up i had to change the session through the tty.
I moved to labwc in my migration from X11. Gnome/KDE felt less stable on wayland. In a way it makes sense that transition is more painful for big full of features DEs.
yeah, the bigger DEs use more X11 features that they now have to build themselves.
Wayland is a mess for me with Plasma 6 (Fedora) but i’m not going back to X11. Quite a few features i use(d) have been broken along the way.
On the upside high DPI support is getting better and better
