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IDK, I've been on Wayland (via Sway) for about 5 years now, there were a few annoyances in the first few years but now I can't remember when was the last Waylan

IDK, I've been on Wayland (via Sway) for about 5 years now, there were a few annoyances in the first few years but now I can't remember when was the last Wayland related thing that I needed to fix.

nicce 4y ago
Screen sharing is a bit challenging but possible. It is not too long when it was impossible. I have personally a bug when sway does not return from sleep mode, sometimes randomly, and I have to physically power off the pc. It just shows black screen with backlight on. I guess the issue is on AMD drivers, but it is likely that it will never be fixed. I have no idea how driver bug can cause this on Wayland but not be an issue elsewhere.
larschdk 4y ago
So, you didn't notice that video playback in Firefox isn't hardware accelerated and stutters a lot? (Firefox' sandbox prevents itself from creating the OpenGL context needed for hardware accelerated video playback).
- nicce 4y ago
  Two years ago, the support was added? https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/firefox-on-fedora-finally-gets-va-api-on-wayland/ https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/firefox-on-fedor... Also, enabled by default with Mesa in these days https://linuxstoney.com/firefox-has-hardware-video-acceleration-enabled-by-default-for-linux-systems-with-mesa/ https://linuxstoney.com/firefox-has-hardware-video-accelerat...
  - stoplying1 4y ago
    This entire subthread is exactly why I don't believe people when they trout out old linux desktop stereotypes and then handwave and imply they've actually tried it anytime recently. Shocking, in development efforts can undergo lots of change in the span of months, let alone years. Wayland is a wip (a number of things are being worked on right now that have never even been fathomed for x11) and it's already a significantly better experience in countless ways over x11.
beebeepka 4y ago
What hardware, though? Do you have a dGPU, play games, etc. We know it works for "desktop" use
- jnsaff2 4y ago
  I've had it on a few generations of nuc's and an XPS 9590 (where I disabled the nvidia card). I use it for DevOps mostly. So no gaming, don't have time for that anyway.

IDK, I've been on Wayland (via Sway) for about 5 years now, there were a few annoyances in the first few years but now I can't remember when was the last Wayland related thing that I needed to fix.

nicce 4y ago

Screen sharing is a bit challenging but possible. It is not too long when it was impossible. I have personally a bug when sway does not return from sleep mode, sometimes randomly, and I have to physically power off the pc. It just shows black screen with backlight on. I guess the issue is on AMD drivers, but it is likely that it will never be fixed. I have no idea how driver bug can cause this on Wayland but not be an issue elsewhere.

larschdk 4y ago

So, you didn't notice that video playback in Firefox isn't hardware accelerated and stutters a lot? (Firefox' sandbox prevents itself from creating the OpenGL context needed for hardware accelerated video playback).

nicce 4y ago
Two years ago, the support was added? https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/firefox-on-fedora-finally-gets-va-api-on-wayland/ https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/firefox-on-fedor... Also, enabled by default with Mesa in these days https://linuxstoney.com/firefox-has-hardware-video-acceleration-enabled-by-default-for-linux-systems-with-mesa/ https://linuxstoney.com/firefox-has-hardware-video-accelerat...
- stoplying1 4y ago
  This entire subthread is exactly why I don't believe people when they trout out old linux desktop stereotypes and then handwave and imply they've actually tried it anytime recently. Shocking, in development efforts can undergo lots of change in the span of months, let alone years. Wayland is a wip (a number of things are being worked on right now that have never even been fathomed for x11) and it's already a significantly better experience in countless ways over x11.

beebeepka 4y ago

What hardware, though? Do you have a dGPU, play games, etc. We know it works for "desktop" use

jnsaff2 4y ago
I've had it on a few generations of nuc's and an XPS 9590 (where I disabled the nvidia card). I use it for DevOps mostly. So no gaming, don't have time for that anyway.