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Linux Mint bringing Wayland sessions to Cinnamon (blog.linuxmint.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ZcaT to c/[email protected]

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[–] cybersandwich 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am excited about Wayland. I'm just waiting on PopOS to run it as the default. I've tried using it but I was getting hard locks when I left my computer idle for a while.

The logs made it seem like it was a Wayland issue so I switched back to x11 for now. It hasn't happened since.

I imagine most people don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. They just want their distro and em to work well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wayland has worked better than X.org in my experience.

I tried i3 with Compton and Picom - both compositors for X.org - and it had major rendering issues, both on AMD (weird lagging) and NVIDIA (colour issues). Meanwhile I tried Hyprland on a spare PC and it provides a great tiled WM with both form and function. If anything'll get me on a tiled WM, it'll be Hyprland now. I'm also looking forward to Wayfire. We need a spiritual successor to Compiz.

[–] cybersandwich 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad to hear it. I am ready to start using it. The architecture is so much more modern and secure. I'm assuming(hoping) Cosmic will be on Wayland when it's launched.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I presume so, but there might be an X.org version because of NVIDIA, who still seems to be problematic with Wayland when using their drivers.