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This 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
by aidenn0 3y ago
This 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.