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It is highly dependent on the user's hardware and software combination. For example, getting Wayland to work with Plasma on Nvidia graphics cards is still a ni
by babypuncher 6y ago
It is highly dependent on the user's hardware and software combination.
For example, getting Wayland to work with Plasma on Nvidia graphics cards is still a nightmare, despite it being officially supported. Out of the box, starting a Wayland session just knocks the user into a frozen TTY. Once you get it to work, you quickly learn that hardware acceleration for X11 apps is nonexistent, rendering most video games unplayable.
- kaba0 6y agoThat’s more of an indicator that plasma’s wayland implementation is not yet ready/stable.
- babypuncher 6y agoThat is why I mentioned it being dependent on the user's hardware and software. "Use a different desktop environment" isn't really an acceptable solution. I don't think it is fully ready until the overwhelming majority of users can move to Wayland without having to give up their current hardware and software.
- kaba0 6y agoThere is no one wayland. There are many implementations of the protocol, some ahead of the other. I don’t see why wouldn’t it be ready, when out of the 3 major ones, one is not yet there — especially when one of the two working ones (wlroots) is really extensible and anyone can create their own wm/compositor
- babypuncher 6y agoNo Wayland implementation works 100% on an Nvidia GPU yet, they are just in varying states broken. I mentioned Plasma because it is what I have the most familiarity with, but Mutter is only slightly better and Sway doesn't work at all yet.