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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don't believe that they're a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland's technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don't want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don't want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn't think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

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[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who constantly checks in on the Nvidia + Wayland combination every time there is a Nvidia driver update, it "works" but only by the loosest definition unfortunately.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it does technically work as in it functions, but it's riddled with bugs and missing features. The biggest one preventing me to switch my desktop over to Wayland is the lack of GAMMA_LUT (which enables night light). The issue for this has been open for over a year and there is still no apparent progress, Nvidia really is a pain on Linux.

Meanwhile my AMD laptop works wonders on Wayland and it's the best experience I've had using a computer by far, the touchpad gestures on GNOME +Wayland make me want to get a trackpad for my desktop when I can switch to Wayland.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

Oh. Womp womp.

I need to refamiliarize myself with the state of AI libraries without CUDA. Last I checked it was still a problem. I'd love to never buy Nvidia again.