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Due to the headline, it has dawned on me just now that the Steam Deck uses X11. Been using PCSX2 successfully on it for several months now. I never thought abou

Due to the headline, it has dawned on me just now that the Steam Deck uses X11. Been using PCSX2 successfully on it for several months now. I never thought about whether it was using Wayland or X11 until reading this.

dinosaurdynasty 3y ago
Steam Deck uses Wayland. It uses Xwayland to run X11 applications.
- saghm 3y ago
  To be fair, that includes a huge portion of the games available on a Steam Deck right now, given that Wine (and by extension Proton) currently only support running via XWayland. On the other hand, that's argument in favor of Wayland from my perspective; if something I want to run doesn't support Wayland, it doesn't actually stop me from using it.
- BearOso 3y ago
  Ironically, the Wayland compositor used by the steam deck, gamescope, doesn't support native Wayland applications. Even weirder, it runs inside an X11 session.
  - Ferret7446 3y ago
    Wait, so why are they even using Wayland?
    - BearOso 3y ago
      The readme pretty much explains it: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope