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Curious from people who follow its development closely.

  • What protocol are about to be finally implemented?
  • Which ones are still a struggle?
  • How many serious protocols are there missing?

https://arewewaylandyet.com/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Five years on wayland here, it's been great as long you don't have single Nvidia gpu or need https://xkcd.com/1172/ kinds of x11 features

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been using wayland on my laptop somce the new year and beyond some driver issues that were purely on AMD's side (and not entirely Wayland exclusive either) I've had no problems.

Stuff like application scaling works so much nicer on Wayland, and X11 just wasn't very stable when handling fullscreen games to the point where I'd set games to borderless or even windowed mode to stop it crapping out on alt-tab

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Didn't you love it when your screen locked and the full screen app had control over your keyboard and mouse!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

please don't post that site. I just need a few more things to work well with Wayland like Nvidia Drivers.

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