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This is how most of us casual linux users learned about Wayland.
by starttoaster 3y ago
This is how most of us casual linux users learned about Wayland.
- mgbmtl 3y agoTo be fair, for such a huge change to how we use Linux on the desktop, worst things could have happened.
- doublepg23 3y agoYeah while Wayland still has some warts it seems like people say "I don't have proper color management on Wayland" with the same enthusiasm "This GNOME Wayland session crashes on boot" from a nearly a decade ago.
- aidenn0 3y agoThis Plasma Wayland session crashes (in my GPU driver): - 3 years ago - 1 year ago - 6 months ago The biggest issue I have with Wayland is that it requires a lot more out of a GPU than a framebuffer, and my experience with video drivers on Linux is that they are very buggy and not maintained for very long. I have an older computer that I can run Xorg with compositing disabled and firefox with GPU rendering disabled. As far as I can tell I will never be able to run Wayland on it without changing the GPU. Similar issues with some ARM based SBCs; they have varying levels of stability in their graphics acceleration capabilities, and often only on a very old kernel, but I can get a reliable framebuffer on mainline.
- vetinari 3y agoWayland in itself has no special requirements on the GPU; it needs standard kernel support (KMS, dmabuf). EGL is optional, for both compositors and apps. Mutter and Sway can both happily run in QEMU framebuffer.