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Source: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server
Reporting is done by users who voluntarily upload their system specs via
# hw-probe -all -upload
Glad to see it finally happening. Wayland has been an amazing experience for several years
X11 has been mostly solid for me. Wonder if Wayland would be worth messing with.
As someone who switched to wayland way back when sway was dominant...? About time.
Way to go Wayland
Web is no display server.
It is possible, although unlikely, that it is the display server for WebOS, the OS Palm built and LG bought. I seem to recall them having their own display server.
I'm willing to bet that, like Linux usage statistics, Steam Deck had something to do with this.
Anyway, I wish I could switch to Wayland, but back when I used it it caused a dozen programs I use everyday to get very crashy.
Doesn't steam deck use x11?
After doing some sniffing: Yes AND no
The default "gaming mode" that the Deck boots into is running wayland, specifically valve's own gamescope compositor which has a lot of workarounds and breaks from wayland's spec to allow for better gaming performance.
When you quit out to "desktop mode" it loads into KDE Plasma with X11, although with recent changes to Plasma, it may well be that the desktop mode will change to being wayland based too.
Which nvidia drivers work with Wayland? I have one pc that only has 470 supported card, l guess all hopes are lost there.. But my 980 gtx machine seems to work mostly on wayland, except somehow minecraft only works on Xorg
I'm still using x11 as Wayland always make my screen blinking and tearing no metter what distro or driver version.
Exact same situation on Nvidia
NVIDIA?
Ye NVIDIA sadly they have CUDA monopoly and AMD AI is not yet mature :/
Cool!
Only because it doesn't ask me to recompile the source every time a kernel update comes in.