Wayland pros and cons?
Hey guys, what are the pros and cons to wayland if I intend to use my PC for gaming + others?
Comparisons to X?
General impressions?
Your advice on if I should use it or stick with X?
My PC parts are arriving soon, and while Ive been a linux user since 2016 its the first time I intend to fully main drive linux, so I guess im just looking for as much information as I can get on it.
Feel free to post links to articles or anything that will answer if you prefer, we're on a link aggregator after all ;) and I dont mind reading.
Thanks in advance :)
Wayland has a ton of issues on Plasma including but not limited to (Not including NVIDIA Issues) (Note that many of these will be fixed in Plasma 6):
- Applications don't prompt to save unsaved work, causing data loss
- No session restore for native Wayland windows
- When the compositor crashes or restarts, non-Qt apps are killed — work is ongoing to fix this
- Not all Sticky Keys options work
- No color management or support for changing Gamma
- KFontView is unable to open or install a font
- Session-restored windows go on the wrong screens and virtual desktops
- When dragging files, to trigger a specific result, you have to hold down a modifier key before you start dragging, not after
- Installed Chrome apps are grouped together with Chrome windows in Icon-Only Task Manager
- Global Menu is broken for non-Qt apps
- When using a Chromium-based browser in native Wayland mode, dragging an image to the desktop creates a sticky note out of it
I used to use Global Menu stil 2 years and it was a mess. For me, Wayland is a gift from gods. The screen tearing went away and it feels more snappier. When I rarely need an external monitor, gone is the need of xrandr-plumbing to make different resolutions to work.