I was wondering how many wayland users are here, and what is your gpu? Why not the other?
I for one use xorg, because of my ye olden nvidia gpu that does not mesh too well with wayland.
I actually have a follow-up to my earlier post. I have been using Plasma with Wayland on my 3090 and it works more consistently than on my laptop with a 1650.
Wayland is basically required for high framerate gaming if you have a multi-monitor setup because it allows multiple refresh rates across all the monitors as compared to X which locks it to the lowest value.
I’ve been able to play World of Warcraft and Cyberpunk 2077 at higher and more consistent frames than running Windows, probably because of all the dumb bullshit in the background that does not exist in my minimal Arch install.
I’m using Wayland with AMD onboard grapgics (Ryzen) and it works like a charm. Sway (/wlroots) and gnome both have full featured compositors out there for years now and I’m looking forward to giving Plasma 6 a try as well (also I’m sceptical since Plasma 5 drove me away with it’s instability at least when it was released).
Overall font rendering, screen sharing (selecting single windows or displays to share), WebGL (in browser camera effects) and switching monitors work better than when I last used XOrg about 3-4 years ago.
Wayland doesn’t work properly in like half of its respects. Xorg still connects to my external monitor without fail. Wayland just does funky things and isn’t a consistent experience for me on Nvidia cards yet. Hoping for that big push KDE is doing with Plasma in February, hopefully that solves most of my issues.
I want to buy an AMD machine (possibly Framework) but it’s expensive for literally just dicking around. I don’t need a performant Linux machine for anything.
Waiting for Plasma 6 to (hopefully) switch to Wayland.
AMD GPU + wayland at home. Intel GPU + xorg for work since screen sharing does not work properly yet.
Been running plasma wayland on my desktop… and I’m glad to say it’s working fine. My GPU is just the intel integrated gpu on my i7 11700. I use two monitors, one is new @165hz, the other is older, prob 60hz. I quite like the mixed refresh rate :) The issues I had before with Wayland aren’t relevant to me right now (but still unfixed). I see myself going full Wayland in Plasma 6
RTX 3090 and xorg, because if its not broken don’t fix it. I need to have something I can actually rely on working 100% of the time (or at least be broken in expected ways) and from what I read wayland isn’t all that great with Nvidia GPUs.
Yeah, I have the same issues with Wayland personally, and all my builds are Intel/Nvidia.
I really want Wayland to work but it literally just doesn’t. Every once and a while I’ll log into it as my DE just to see if anything has been fixed or if it’s gotten worse. Usually it doesn’t detect my external monitor, which is a pretty big issue. Hoping the push KDE is doing in February for updating Plasma’s Wayland systems comes out relatively bug-free and solves most of my problems.
I use xorg but am definitely interested in trying out wayland as soon as I get my setup just the way I like it - i.e. my first rice. My GPU is an AMD 6800