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The First Bits of Wine's Wayland Driver Were Merged

• raffraffraff 4y ago
  I haven't dipped quill to write about Wayland yet because I don't want to complain. It's great that it's constantly getting better, and some day it'll be running on my machine. But every time I've used it I've had to switched back to Xorg within a day because numerous things didn't work. When wine finally works with Wayland, it'll be one less broken thing, and one step closer to an Xorg-free laptop. Having said that, every time I switch back to xorg, I don't feel like I've lost anything. Are my eyes just too old and shit to notice Wayland's superiority?
  • jacooper 4y ago
    To be fair, if your usage doesn't hit any edge cases you would probably not notice any difference. It supports using multiple monitors with different refresh rates, relative touch pad gestures, fractional scaling, more secure, easier to work with (for drivers) and more.
  • zamadatix 4y ago
    WINE should have been working before via Xwayland, this will just make it native. Most people really shouldn't notice a difference at a glance and right now unless there is something about X11 causing you problems there isn't much advantage to rushing over. For user facing items it's little things like mixed refresh rate screens rendering at separate rates or mixed DPI screens without rescaling the output framebuffers. It's also likely newer things like HDR may only make their way to Wayland, if not then at least there first.