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Wayland pros and cons? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

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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 :)

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[–] TONKAHANAH 1 points 2 years ago

since I switched to an AMD card i've been running wayland exclusively and only have so much x11 bits installed as xwayland and kde demand.

x11, at least with kde, has always felt kinda.. idk, not unstable, but kinda always felt like it was held together with packing tape and chewing gum, like fuck'n with the settings or widgets will just throw it out of wack, it always felt like there was a small amount of jank all the time.

but on wayland, something about it feels more streamlined and smooth. Im not quite sure how to describe it.

I'd just check all the programs you want/need to run. I'd argue wayland is better for games now with gamescope support but there are some things that just dont work with wayland at all. I think teamviewer doesnt (or didnt last I checked), i think OBS still has some issues as well as discord streaming. various things.

but if all you're doing is games and web browsing, wayland has been very kind to me for that.

if you're running an nvidia card, I'd probably just go x11 still unless you plan on using gnome which I think wayland+nvidia works a bit better there.