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Is there something you lack in Wayland but have in xorg? (lemmy.world)
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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (23 children)

Like, everything?

Guake doesn't work, gnome-screenshot doesn't work, Plank doesn't work...

Most GUI utilities that integrate into the OS of some kind require drawing over apps. It's absurd that Wayland doesn't support this properly for uhhh no reason other than vague claims of improved security and process isolation. If someone's into your system with such a degree of access it's all over anyway.

If I'm not using Gnome, then I'll be using i3 and then I honestly could care less which one, I'll just be using the most compatible one which I think is just xorg. Plasma just sucks I'm so sorry, it's messy.

And I'm sorry but there's no serious work you can do with an AMD GPU either. I wish it wasn't like this but it is, no CUDA no joy.

Wayland is DOA and will never replace Xorg. Deal with it.

[–] brian@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago (20 children)

This is just misinformed.

Sure your favorite apps may not use it, but Wayland does provide protocols for drawing things over other apps. https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1

I never used guake with i3 since scratchpads exist and are the general solution, and sway works fine there.

and there's plenty of screenshot apps that work. I haven't tried gnome-screenshot, but I find it hard to believe that it or some alternative gnome one doesn't work given the effort the project has put into Wayland

nvidia support isn't great but it is getting better. I haven't bought nvidia in forever but I know plasma and gnome both say they have support for Wayland on nvidia now.

For gaming amd is great, for real work I'd just rent time on some cloud service lol. If I'm that worried about performance my one consumer gpu isn't going to make a dent either

[–] optimal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

the screenshot functionality is now built into GNOME Shell with a better UI

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