Is it just me, or are you folks running Wayland with no issues? I’ve even forgotten I was on Wayland until I looked at the settings the other day. I have all AMD, btw. I have zero issues so far. Anyone else?

  • jlow (he/him) ( jlow@beehaw.org ) 
    7·
    2 years ago

    I would say it’s mostly smooth except for a few annoyances like lots of apps not displaying icons correctly in taskbar or taskswitcher but a standard Wayland icon.

  • _spiffy ( _spiffy@lemmy.ca ) English
    5·
    2 years ago

    I have been using Sway for ~2 years now without issues. AMD CPU and GPU. I am not super particular about input lag and stuff, but I haven’t noticed any issues.

    I have a VM that runs windows for my work stuff and it has no issues I play video games via proton without issues either, other than having to muck around with a few titles launch options to unset my SDL video driver I stream to twitch periodically when I am bored and it works well by using the obs vkcapture plugin

  • Fleppensteyn ( Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    I tried it on a new Lenovo (AMD). The cursor size changed its size from normal to microscopic, depending on the application you hover over. Went back to X, no issues there.

    Still can’t run Wayland on my system (Nvidia) at all.

  • Günther Unlustig 🍄 ( Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    The only issues I had were due to fractional scaling (blurry apps, especially Electron based ones; and windows opening or moving to weird edges, where I can’t move them anymore).

    But those were already a few months or a year ago, and since I switched from Gnome to KDE 6, I have zero issues, neither on my laptop (integrated on CPU), nor on my desktop with an AMD GPU.

    And even over a year, almost two, ago, Wayland has been very smooth for me. I used Gnome for most of the time, which has always been very solid with Wayland. KDE has been a bit more janky in the past, but nowadays, Wayland feels way smoother and polished than X11 for me.

    • penquin ( penquin@lemm.ee ) OP
      1·
      2 years ago

      I actually forgot to mention that the only issues I have are some of my favorite apps/features just don’t work on Wayland. example, superpaper is an app that I use to span wallpapers across both of my monitors. It doesn’t work as well as on x11. It does work, but I’d have to launch it from the terminal every single time I reboot. Also, it’s tray icon doesn’t show up. Betterbird email client’s “close to minimize” feature doesn’t work on Wayland. Even the developers basically told me to kick rocks when I reported it on GitHub and said that working with Wayland is a nightmare for them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • itslilith ( itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    Only issue I have is that custom overlays are hard to impossible to get working. Which is a security feature I’m sure, but still is annoying. I tried for a while to get AwakenedPoeTrade running, but eventually gave up.

    But everyday use, not a single issue (that I’m not blatantly responsible for myself, at least)

  • boredsquirrel (he) ( boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    Yeah no issues either really. Pipewire has had more than Wayland for me.

    Yeah, portals and all. But I just use modern applications, and am kinda lucky that the only Electron app I need with that feature (Signal Desktop) supports it.

    I keep a list of those apps, feel free to contribute!

    https://github.com/boredsquirrel/Recommended-Flatpak-Apps

    Btw, XWayland is a huge part. I force nearly all apps through Wayland now, and already had some major issues. I switched from VLC to Celluloid for that (never regret that)