I’ve been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia).
I thought it was okay for the most part but then I had to switch to an X session recently. The experience felt about the same. Out of curiosity, I played a couple of games and realized they worked much better. Steam doesn’t go nuts either.
Made me think maybe people aren’t actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community. And that maybe I should just go back.
My Thinkpad touchscreens were useless until I switched to wayland
Probably like 3+ years on the laptop (Intel), approaching 1 year on the desktop (AMD).
Wayland + NVIDIA is still a disaster and a very inferior experience compared to the AMD side. I would stick with Xorg if I had NVIDIA too.
Only on Intel or AMD do you get a Wayland experience that makes you go “wow I can’t wait for Xorg to be dead for good”. I had a very, very noticeable improvement even years ago on Wayland when it comes to triple monitor performance, VRR and vsync in general. Now that screen capture and stuff is mostly figured out, it works perfectly for me.
At this point my only issues with Wayland are related to features that haven’t been implemented yet, not bugs or performance issues. And I’m more than willing to workaround the limitations and take the benefits.
I’ve been patiently following development and waiting to switch for 10 years, first exploring Wayland with the EGLStream patch for Weston on my GTX 580. Even back then you could feel the difference, but obviously it was also unusable other than demos.
I was using it on a new work machine, it was fine.
The main issue is all the good tiling wms are X11 based and I don’t really want to use a wayland version of i3. I want some dynamic tiling goodies.
Been on it for about a year now, both with my desktop’s A770 and my laptop’s AMD iGPU. Experience has been pretty much flawless.
Yes, for over a year now (since early December 2022, don’t remember the exact date).
My experiences with it seem to constantly be different than that of most users, because Wayland was a direct upgrade for me - I couldn’t play games properly on X11 at all because they would stutter and freeze really badly even when Vsync was disabled and the game reported to be running at 60 FPS, but Wayland fixed the issue altogether for me.
…Granted, I’m on an AMD card. If I was on Nvidia it’d probably be another story entirely. :x
I’ve switched nearly all my computers to Linux with wayland in the past 2 years with the last device coming over in the last couple of months.
I run a headless fedora/kde
/waylandgaming desktop (with a nvidia GPU) which I use exclusively over steam links dotted around the house. That took a bit of tinkering tbh but flawless operation since. Edit: Turns out its actually still on Xorg. Still some work to do here getting this moved over. I forget why I didn’t stick but must’ve been some combination of headless and steam link streamsI use arch/hyprland on my daily driver laptop and arch/sway on my work laptop.
The wifes laptop is also fedora/KDE on wayland.
I am dependent on a couple of programs I run via wine - and wine still isn’t directly compatible with wayland and buggy with xwayland…
I though wine merged their wayland drivers?
Seems to be behind an experimental flag at the moment but making great progress.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/what-to-expect-from-wine-on-wayland-in-2024/
Gretlat that they’re making progress! aTM windows still flicker or fail to show content. I’d love to use it in production later this year maybe …
Yeah I’m holding out for xscreensaver support
Still holding out for desktop streaming via SteamLink to work on Wayland. I use it almost nightly to mirror my screen to my phone so I can watch what’s on my PC while cooking dinner via my phone.
I should check that out. Can you just stream any application to your phone?
It’s essentially just a remote desktop app, so yeah kinda. Depending on your screen resolution it’ll be either be more or less annoying to click on smaller UI elements, but it’s certainly possible.
I keep my Bluetooth headphones connected to the PC, and there’s maybe a split second delay. Otherwise it’s perfect, because you can still navigate your PC with the touch screen as a mouse, and it even nicely supports my 3 monitors at once.
I wanted to love Wayland but the fact is half of the apps I use are either too small in the UI or too blurry when scaled up. Until that’s fixed I’m staying on x11 begrudgingly.
I have these exact same issues with wayland on KDE.
Yep running kubuntu and I’m a xorg boi for a while still
@headroom Wayland has been my daily for almost a year-and-a-half, most of that on Intel/Nvidia hybrid gpus. I used to use XFCE but switched to Plasma in anticipation of the Landing of Way.
Interested to hear you use it with Nvidia - I was led to understand it didn’t play well with Nvidia.
I’m going to give it a try and see how it goes with my card.
I can only speak for the desktop, not laptops, when I say it works perfectly on Gnome and KDE and even Hyprland which doesn’t even officially support Nvidia hardware. That said, for the first time in two years I started having big issues with a few games (though, I don’t play a large number of games so take this with a grain of salt). Right now, I have an xorg session on the side to play those games. Although, I’m starting to notice it’s missing some things from Wayland that I’ve gotten accustomed to.
Wayland is expected to get much, much better when the 555 drivers drop explicit support in May and when proton enables the wine wayland drivers.
Yes, on my laptop where it works well and it allows for nice fractional scaling.
It works on my desktop too but I can’t stand vsync while playing CS so it’s Xorg for now.
Tried wayland but it doesnt work on debian stable + kde + nvidia hickup-free yet. I will switch when a) the fixes come to stable and b) a need to switch arises.
I only use wayland on my t480 and it makes a noticeable difference on that machine, but not on my desktop with Nvidia. I have been testing it for a couple of days on my Nvidia box though. So far I’ve found it mostly works better than I expected but some games played on Nvidia+Wayland makes it look like my monitor is about to die with the weird flickers it does at times and under certain conditions (like loading screens it’s unbearable), otherwise performance is good and seems to lock in at 144hz. Also does anyone know why there are no settings in the nvidia-settings app under Wayland?
