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 :)

  •  Communist   ( @communist@beehaw.org ) 
    7•1 year ago

    Really, what it should come down to as an individual is that all of the x11 devs left to work on Wayland because x11 is unmaintainable.

    Use Wayland if it works for you, if you find something that doesn’t work, go back to x11 and find the issue tracker and switch back if you care for the benefits later.

    The benefits:

    1. A better security model
    2. More efficient rendering
    3. Better animations
    4. Better support for multi displays (mixed refresh rate/dpi)
    5. HDR (soon)
    6. Better color management (soon)

    The only problems I have currently is sway doesn’t support single window capture and the XWayland clipboard isn’t great.