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I've been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia).

I thought it was okay for the most part but then I had to switch to an X session recently. The experience felt about the same. Out of curiosity, I played a couple of games and realized they worked much better. Steam doesn't go nuts either.

Made me think maybe people aren't actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community. And that maybe I should just go back.

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[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

i'll probably jump the next time i change window managers or distros... i havent a reason to currently

[–] DarthSpot@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Mid 2022, when i swapped my nvidia card to an AMD one. Instantly switched to Wayland (KDE Plasma) and stayed there.

[–] kib48@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I haven't touched the X11 session once since I got my laptop, all Wayland

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

Not yet. I'll give it another go when I get Plasma 6 (I'm on Debian, so either I'll switch to Sid or just wait a while).

Last time I tried it, it mostly worked, but mpv had some issues and missing features on Wayland. I haven't kept up with the mpv developments since then so I'm not sure if that's been addressed upstream yet.

[–] banghida@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes. Since 2013 or so, if I remember correctly. Gnome 3.10.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I am dependent on a couple of programs I run via wine - and wine still isn't directly compatible with wayland and buggy with xwayland...

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[–] chris@lem.cochrun.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

A year and a half? Basically when hyprland got good enough. I used to use awesome and needed something with similar pretty features.

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

KDE Plasma on Arch on integrated Intel graphics here. I've been on it for a few years and I love it.

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I am a relatively new Linux user, 3 years (almost 2 years dual booted with Windows and now only Linux) and I started using Wayland after approx 2.5 years ago. I used it on my ideapad gaming with 3050etx and Intel igpu and prior to that I used some hp laptop... With gtx 980mx. I used manjaro then arch and then fedora for the last yeae mostly and I haven't encountered any issues with Wayland whatsoever

[–] zarenki@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I've been using it since it felt usable enough in GNOME to me. Around 2015-ish, give or take a year. GNOME leading on Wayland support is a big part of why I switched to it from Xfce back then. Nowadays KDE and others have plenty good Wayland support too (better in some ways like allowing server-side decorations and global shortcuts) but I just haven't felt like trying to properly experiment to see what I like.

I've always avoided Nvidia on my desktops. Stuck with either radeon or intel and never had any exceptionally big issues with them on Wayland. Though other things like hardware accelerated video decoding have had a history of being spotty on some drivers/GPUs.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

When I can use mtp connections with cli apps instead of only gui apps

[–] loopgru@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Niche, I know, but I'm waiting on full functionality in Input Leap (Barrier fork which was a Synergy 1.x fork). Right now it sounds like it's 90% of the way there but lacks clipboard sharing. I'm running Wayland on my desktop, but this soft kvm is pretty fundamental to my workflow on my laptop.

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[–] gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Generally I have when I use Gnome or KDE on Linux, though I have started to prefer MATE, which doesn't have Wayland support yet afaik. I also started using FreeBSD on one of my computers a bit more, and I believe Wayland support is still a bit wonky on that right now. But as soon as Wayland support is there I'm definitely switching to that on the daily.

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[–] MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Been on it for about a year now, both with my desktop's A770 and my laptop's AMD iGPU. Experience has been pretty much flawless.

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I need full screen share and I think it isn't there for wayland. But the track pad support is better in wayland.

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[–] giddy@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

When VMWare Horizon Client (which I need for work) supports it

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, since Fedora 21 when it switched by default.

It hasn't really caused game breaking issues for me, however it is nice that the few nit-picks have all been resolved.

I get the sense that the majority of people use it on Workstations, there is just a vocal minority that resists the change. There are so many academic and enterprise users just using distros in their default state Wayland and all.

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use Wayland since I got a second monitor, since X can't handle mixed DPI. I'd use X otherwise, since global hotkeys work there

[–] Communist@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Global hotkeys work in kde wayland and hyprland!

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