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> Meanwhile Linux with Wayland has progressed meaningfully and is still being regarded with unwarranted disdain nonetheless. That's because things don't work.
by fluffything 6y ago
> Meanwhile Linux with Wayland has progressed meaningfully and is still being regarded with unwarranted disdain nonetheless.
That's because things don't work.
I moved from i3 to Sway and back to i3 because Sway didn't deliver of being compatible with i3.
Then there is the xdg portal mess which makes screen sharing through a web browser weird.
And also the whole XForawarding mess, which makes all Apps using it blurry in HiDPI. I use my computer for work, and 99% of it happens in emacs. The remaining 1% is using Chromium, which also does not support Wayland yet, so for me 100% of my wayland experience on HiDPI amounts to "all text on Wayland is blurry". There is no "HiDPI per-App" setting to fix this, scaling to 1.5x is also bad, etc. And that's without entering on the "wl-roots will never support nvidia thing". I need to use both AMD and nvidia hardware for work. I don't care about whether Wayland's desktop war (e.g. Sway) against nvidia, who has 50% of the GFX market, and 99% of the compute market, is honorable or not. But I do care about not being able to work on Wayland while X works just fine.
Sway devs say that this is 100% nvidias fault. From my POV, all other desktops manage to work with nvidia's hardware just fine, Sway does not, so I see this as being 100% Sway's fault. Without an i3 replacement I can't use Wayland, so until this fanaticism finished, I'll probably won't be able to use it.