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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 16 points 4 months ago

A good sign. Other community distros have already done that, but this is a good sign to the larger community that Wayland is basically ready for prime time.

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Am I going to have a bad time trying to switch to Wayland? I just use discord, Spotify, steam, some basic steam games, Krita, and emacs

[–] airbussy@lemmy.one 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Screen sharing on Discord with Wayland kinda sucks at the moment, but I believe that's moreso Discord's fault for not updating Electron or something along those lines.

If you really need screenshare there were some options with xwaylandvideobridge, a custom client, or just running it via the browser

[–] pkill@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

on chromium screen sharing works flawlessly though.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but Discord is using a really old version afaik.

There's Armcord which does support screen sharing (and all sorts of neat features).

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

why even install multiple copies of chromium in the first place if all this electron proprietary garbage comes with virtually no extra features compared to the web version, in the first place?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Because Armcord inserts extra features into the app.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you use scaling some apps can be blurry. Oh and screen sharing doesn't work on discord cause they refuse to update their app. Other than that it was smooth sailing for me

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Wow that's good news, I'll have to give it a shot

Both teamviewer and rustdesk are acting funny as hell since the upgrade. Seriously buggy for me. Screen locks up. Keyboard and mouse also act funny. tiger vnc is ok at the moment. That’s my biggest takeaway. It’s been hard to do stuff remotely with Wayland enabled.

[–] Dropkick3038@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Afaict wine uses XWayland. Sometimes with my games I'll have problems like the game running on one display and expecting input from the other, even when I've switched the second display off with wlr-randr. I also have occasional UI scaling problems. Most things works well most of the time though.

With a good compositor, Wayland itself is probably ready enough for most cases. A lot of applications need to be updated to better support it though., and that seems like a lot of work.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

Am I going to have a bad time

yes, don't listen to the people with narrow use-cases that "work perfectly for them"

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

On Plasma 6.1/KWin on Wayland, with newest 555.52.04 drivers, it's literally been flawless for me

[–] refalo@programming.dev 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Except blind users cannot even install the distro at all now because all Wayland distros have broken screen readers.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago

So they gonna give me an NVIDIA card if I use Wayland? Nice!

[–] ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

Are they using the beta v555 Nvidia drivers? I, and a lot of other people, are having a lot of issues with the current stable ones not supporting implicit sync.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Why did you switch up the title?

[–] PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I installed void linux which I guess defaults to wayland and everything ran like crap until I switched to x11. Have fun with that.