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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

I switched to Wayland the moment my distro went moved to KDE Plasma 6 because according to my logic: if things are going to be broken and I'm going to adjust to them anyways, I might as well do it all at once: shock therapy style.

Plasma 6 broke a lot of my desktop customization, but that is to be expected. And Wayland? It has been surprisingly okay. I am experiencing some keyboard-related problems that I can't even begin to track down (sometimes the keyboard flat out refuses to work for certain programs, sometimes it's the numpad). However, I am not sure if it's really related to Wayland, so I'm withholding judgement.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just set up xmonad because I was in the mood for change. Took about a week of tinkering a bit each day and I really like it. Afterwards, I was still in the mood for configs and looked at Wayland. There isn't much progress on Wayland xmonad, so guess that has to wait.

That's a common problem I've been hearing for almost 10 now - the software support isn't quite there yet.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, is it on a population of 5000 computers? Bruh, why are we even looking at this?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

No the sample size is ~5000, which is pretty OK if representative of the population (big if though)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I try to switch once a month. Still not there for me yet, last time Cura was acting up.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

thats so pog, i wished it actually worked

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really surprising considering that (IIRC) it's the default on the Gnome variants of Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora

But keep in mind that voluntary data tends to be pretty skewed

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

voluntary data tends to be pretty skewed

Yea and a strangely (to me) large proportion of people seem vehemently opposed to apps even asking to collect usage data, which is incredibly helpful for developers, putting aside the more controversial things like privacy/marketing uses of the data.

Personally I don't believe for one second that Wayland has actually surpassed the install base of X11-like display servers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I've switched to X11 last week, because kwin_wayland crashes each time my monitor enters low-power mode.

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

Out of curiosity, what GPU do you have?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Intel UHD graphics.

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

Anyone who needs accessibility is screwed as Wayland takes over. Let's hope we can still choose for another say 40 years. Then, I'll be done, and Wayland can rule. Pity those who will still need accessibility options though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you serious? Every sane desktop is working on accessibility. I recently heard from System76 that they're putting in the effort for COSMIC, we have GNOME focusing a portion of that €1 million they got from Germany, on accessibility (last I heard, they're working on cross-desktop solutions). Now, I don't remember hearing much from Plasma on accessibility, but I think it's fair to assume they're also working on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

User skullgiver provides an excellent answer as to why. It's a shame, but it's a reality that most apps won't expose themselves properly, and hence accessibility is over in Wayland. Despite their excellent efforts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Gotta resoect the tty. Consistently consitent

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