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I recently upgraded to the latest Debian stable, which gave me wayland-based KDE. I thought to give it a try, but running old dosbox or wine based games in ful

I recently upgraded to the latest Debian stable, which gave me wayland-based KDE. I thought to give it a try, but running old dosbox or wine based games in full screen doesn't seem to work: They appear in the top left corner, but don't change the resolution. I reverted to X for now. I might give it another try later. Am I just unlucky, or are the wayland edges still this rough?

bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Yes and yes. By which I mean many applications seem to have got things solved now through their dependencies, so it’s possible to see this as unlucky. But there are still some rough edges. Too many applications still need app-specific fixes and workarounds, and those are often complicated by e.g. needing to override the environment inside a Snap or AppImage or whatever. My frustration, heading back to desktop linux after a long break, is the energy spent trying to learn these things feels a bit wasted at my age. I have a couple of needs I want to use Linux for, and I may end up setting up entirely separate machines for each, so that I don’t need to constantly switch environments.