1y ago

So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

pointieststick.com So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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I switched my laptop to Wayland ages ago. One screen, not used for anything complicated. KDE Wayland had everything it needed years ago.

My desktop PC is used for gaming. XWayland Freesync, multiple screens at different refresh rates and DPIs and so on. Wayland was missing support for things it needed until fairly recently, but even it got switched over last year.

Wayland is pretty mature now, and devs are chasing down the last edge cases.
- Does fucking Nvidia Support Wayland now(meaning full fan control)?
  
  No idea - I intended to run Linux when I chose my current hardware, so there's no Nvidia GPUs in any of it.
- Like reliable screen sharing? :o