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Wayland pros and cons? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A major downside of even trying Wayland is that you need to throw away all the knowledge and all the little tools you built up over the years on X and start over from scratch. And that without a guarantee that you won't have to come back to X due to the lack of hardware support on one out of two major graphics card vendors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

But that is to be expected when switching stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For new users this isn't really a problem though, but I agree with the sentiment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For new users it is mainly a problem for blog posts and similar sources that now provide solutions to their problems that no longer work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Good point

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dont plan on using nvidia anytime soon so thats not an issue. As for tools, while ive been a long time linux user, this is the first time ill really be able to truly daily-drive/main a linux distro (previously my desktop was Windows and LTs were linux). So as for little tools, I dont mind either as Ill really start collecting/building them up now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dont plan on using nvidia anytime soon

Neither was I but with recent AI developments and those being a lot better supported on CUDA than AMD's ROCm it is a concern for some.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Im not aware of these, but either way I dont really dabble with AI so I doubt it would seriously affect me, at least for a very long time