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Wayland is not the default on most Linux distributions for a reason and likely won't be for a while. Surprised to see it picked as a foundation as it is not mat
by chmln 8y ago
Wayland is not the default on most Linux distributions for a reason and likely won't be for a while. Surprised to see it picked as a foundation as it is not mature at all, despite the protocol being around for a decade now.
- jniedrauer 8y agoWayland is the default on Fedora. I've been using it exclusively for around 2 years now. Every time I go back to X, I'm reminded of why I use Wayland full time. The sooner adoption happens, the sooner the edge cases will be worked out.
- chmln 8y ago> Every time I go back to X, I'm reminded of why I use Wayland full time. Why's that? Genuinely curious as I always have the exact opposite experience. I've found both gnome wayland and sway matching neither x11's features nor performance
- AsyncAwait 8y agoAt least on my AMD box, Wayland is considerably smoother than X.
- jniedrauer 8y agoThe main reason for me is HiDPI support. Scaling works extremely well in wayland, and I can set scaling per-display. HiDPI support on X is an afterthought at best.
- ndnxhs 8y agoDoes fractional scailing work yet. I have 1080p on a small laptop and the text is too small to read but 2x is huge. Currently I just have large text enabled in accessibility mode.
- jniedrauer 8y agoIt does, yes. Quite well. I have one of my displays at 1.5x scale.
- rhodysurf 8y agoIts so much smoother for me as long as I dont use an NVIDIA laptop
- gh02t 8y agoIt makes more sense when you remember that they are building the whole software stack, or at least have a lot of control over it. A lot of Wayland's issues are with backwards compatibility, but Librem doesn't have to deal with that as much, plus they have a defined set of hardware so driver support issues are much less of a problem.