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ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on. (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by alexdeathway@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only flag I had to set was one for Firefox, and that has become enabled by default these days. XWayland solves all of the difficult mess as far as I can tell, including dealing with Electron applications.

I suppose the difficulty of migration depends on how complex your setup, but for most distros, switching to Wayland is no more difficult than selecting it in a dropdown on the login screen and installing a different screen recorder (because those are often written specifically for X.org or Wayland's APIs, and rarely for both).

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had to set a ton more. Without the ozone flags my electron apps flicker and have this sync problem that appears to eat letters while I type them. Different electron apps use different configuration files, it's a mess.

I wouldn't consider my setup to be complex enough for the amount of trouble I had to make the system work under Wayland.

I'm using an Nvidia GPU, I'm sure things would be more streamlined if I had something else.