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Let's talk about #Linux on the desktop, #Gnome and the state of #Wayland in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately I still have some breaking bugs with wayland on my laptop.

Most notably big blue button (an open source video conference tool) refuses to connect when using firefox with wayland.

Firefox does not allow copying of urls in wayland if a certain setting is enabled in kde plasmas settings.

I cannot move views around or redock windows in eclipse.

Xilinx vivadi randomly crashes on wayland but not on X11.

Notably, aside from the url copying problem, most of those things will not be an issue for the typical user