KDE’s telemetry even five months ago showed 80+% of (that portion of) their userbase uses Wayland, and they plan to drop X11 once they have a concrete set of problems worked out.
Hyprland and Sway run Wayland exclusively.
Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce are working on Wayland sessions. Cinnamon’s is there but, I think, still experimental.
Budgie is working to go Wayland-only.
There’s no sign that Wayland will stop improving from a state that’s arguably already much better than X11.
X11’s actual maintainers barely want anything to do with it beyond bug fixes, and the only person who wants to “innovate” it via a fork is a bigot and a fucking moron who doesn’t know things you learn in CS 101.
X11’s maintainers are majorly involved in developing Wayland and have been since the start. This is their idea.
It seems like it went from “Situation: there is one standard” to “Situation: there are two standards developed by largely the same people with one set to replace the other”, and then soon: “Situation: there is one standard and one translation layer kept around for a decade or so for compatibility.”
Not every single time someone tries to make things better is this xkcd relevant; this had nothing to do with unifying standards and everything to do with superseding one.
I’ve used a few distros that locked specific patch levels and that’s just one of the kinds of issues you deal with. Sometimes that version has a bug and you have to wait for the next major release to get the update.
I’m using a rolling release distro, which comes with a different set of problems. But, I have the latest drivers and Wayland updates and have not encountered any significant issues using high refresh rate, VRR, HDR even while gaming.
It’s also possible that Bazzite is using gamescope which does have significant issues with NVIDIA, even still. But the newest versions of Proton support using Wayland directly (instead of XWayland), so it’s possible to avoid using gamescope entirely without losing access to display features.
Not sure how this applies when:
It seems like it went from “Situation: there is one standard” to “Situation: there are two standards developed by largely the same people with one set to replace the other”, and then soon: “Situation: there is one standard and one translation layer kept around for a decade or so for compatibility.”
Not every single time someone tries to make things better is this xkcd relevant; this had nothing to do with unifying standards and everything to do with superseding one.
Huh neat. I kinda just assumed “wheel11” had 10 other versions and didnt realize it was an analogy for something irl
You are actually correct that Wheel11 had 10 other versions. It just happens that those 10 other versions were released before September 1987.
> Pretty much everything uses wayland now
> nVidia drivers don’t work on Wayland
> ANGER
And that’s why I’m getting AMD when I’ll be
modernizingreplacing my setupWhat?
I’m using Wayland with nvidia-open drivers and I don’t have a problem even using proton via Wayland for HDR.
I’m using the proprietary ones on Bazzite and they don’t let me change my refresh rate - fortunately it only went from 75Hz to 60.
When I looked up the issue, the only reason I could find is that the drivers have issues with Wayland.
Ah.
I’ve used a few distros that locked specific patch levels and that’s just one of the kinds of issues you deal with. Sometimes that version has a bug and you have to wait for the next major release to get the update.
I’m using a rolling release distro, which comes with a different set of problems. But, I have the latest drivers and Wayland updates and have not encountered any significant issues using high refresh rate, VRR, HDR even while gaming.
It’s also possible that Bazzite is using gamescope which does have significant issues with NVIDIA, even still. But the newest versions of Proton support using Wayland directly (instead of XWayland), so it’s possible to avoid using gamescope entirely without losing access to display features.
Obligatory “it works for me”. I only had one issue with one game on Wayland. Some nvidia driver update fixed that a few months ago.