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I thought so too, first impression is very good. Unfortunately I couldn't keep using it because you can't screen share in MS Teams with Wayland, and most games

I thought so too, first impression is very good. Unfortunately I couldn't keep using it because you can't screen share in MS Teams with Wayland, and most games don't work in Wayland either. So it was back to X11. Until screen sharing works in more apps, and until Proton/Wine games work I'm sticking to X11 and I'm not complaining.

oxplot 5y ago
Have you tried Pipewire for screen sharing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_sharing https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_shar...
- yxhuvud 5y ago
  Doesn't help, Teams doesn't support pipewire yet.
0x38B 5y ago
I use Sway (and therefore Wayland) for everything except gaming; for that I switch to i3 (X11) on TTY2. Works great for me.
- Fnoord 5y ago
  Back in the start of the century I used to run two X servers. One with a Linux desktop (tried various stuff) and one with Nvidia's proprietary kernel module, purely to play games, and have any crashes not lock up my whole machine. It worked beautifully. Eventually I switched to the red side, and I stayed there as much as possible.
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- sobkas 5y ago
  I use Gnome+Wayland for gaming. I only had one problem for years that I used it. Something related to "Failed to initialize parser".
kaba0 5y ago
You can if you use it from an up-to-date web browser (or if microsoft would use an up-to-date electron build as a base).
- enriquto 5y ago
  This is absurd. Why would the browser matter for such a basic system functionality as screenshoting?
  - kaba0 5y ago
    Because it is an electron app, built on top of a browser that doesn’t use the correct build flags?
    - enriquto 5y ago
      But why does the nature of the program matter at all? If a program writes a file on my home directory, I can read that file with other programs, regardless of the build flags of the first program. Why isn't my screen just the same? A program writes pixels to it, then I use another program to read them. Having the pixels of your screen be more "sacred" than the files on your $HOME is a disturbingly bizarre security model.
      - jessaustin 5y ago
        It isn't necessary that any particular program have access to $HOME, is it? That's often the most straightforward way for things to work, but anything can be run in a chroot jail or simply as another user.
      - kaba0 5y ago
        Try writing to a file using linux kernel calls on windows — APIs matter. Also, please have a look at here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735099 This simply should not happen, any random executable having access to your $HOME is a terrible terrible practice.

oxplot 5y ago

Have you tried Pipewire for screen sharing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_sharing https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_shar...

yxhuvud 5y ago
Doesn't help, Teams doesn't support pipewire yet.

0x38B 5y ago

I use Sway (and therefore Wayland) for everything except gaming; for that I switch to i3 (X11) on TTY2. Works great for me.

Fnoord 5y ago
Back in the start of the century I used to run two X servers. One with a Linux desktop (tried various stuff) and one with Nvidia's proprietary kernel module, purely to play games, and have any crashes not lock up my whole machine. It worked beautifully. Eventually I switched to the red side, and I stayed there as much as possible.
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sobkas 5y ago
I use Gnome+Wayland for gaming. I only had one problem for years that I used it. Something related to "Failed to initialize parser".

kaba0 5y ago

You can if you use it from an up-to-date web browser (or if microsoft would use an up-to-date electron build as a base).

enriquto 5y ago
This is absurd. Why would the browser matter for such a basic system functionality as screenshoting?
- kaba0 5y ago
  Because it is an electron app, built on top of a browser that doesn’t use the correct build flags?
  - enriquto 5y ago
    But why does the nature of the program matter at all? If a program writes a file on my home directory, I can read that file with other programs, regardless of the build flags of the first program. Why isn't my screen just the same? A program writes pixels to it, then I use another program to read them. Having the pixels of your screen be more "sacred" than the files on your $HOME is a disturbingly bizarre security model.
    - jessaustin 5y ago
      It isn't necessary that any particular program have access to $HOME, is it? That's often the most straightforward way for things to work, but anything can be run in a chroot jail or simply as another user.
    - kaba0 5y ago
      Try writing to a file using linux kernel calls on windows — APIs matter. Also, please have a look at here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735099 This simply should not happen, any random executable having access to your $HOME is a terrible terrible practice.