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KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

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[+] -14 points 11 months ago (12 children)

In other words if you have a nvidia card you wont be using kde plasma. I installed kde neon at the house and plasma shell would core five or six times a day. I had to switch back to X11 just to get a stable machine. I really need to ditch it and go back to a more stable distro.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Really? I’ve been running this on Nvidia since Plasma came out with no issues. Sounds like there’s still bugs to fix.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I looked it up and its fairly common enough but no solution. None that worked anyway. Machine is stable on ubuntu/debian with gnome. I keep having trouble with wayland working right on a some applications as well. Of course all the discussion on these bugs get washed out by the 'its not waylands fault' crowd. None of that fanaticism solves problems for me. They can't even prove their point of view but wont let you discuss the problem.

    I tried kde again since it had been five or six years since I tried it. All in all it works but so does gnome. I keep seeing everyone talking about how much trouble it causes but I dont see it in my personal use of it.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    While Nvidia has made it trickier to play with Linux in general, it usually does not require more than a tinker to fix

    I have multiple machines running on Nvidia and AMD hardware with Wayland for years

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Its some combination of plasma and wayland. I run wayland on a few machines here and there and they are okay. The last bug I encountered with wayland was getting a game emulator working for someone in window mode. No one who responded wanted to do anything other than blame the program for not working with wayland. None of that helps solve a problem. So I solved it by switching to X11 and the program worked okay in window mode.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Its some combination of plasma and wayland

    That could be but it's not universal to all machines running anything NVidia+Plasma+Wayland as you made it sound in your original post. That is the clarification I was trying to make.

    Not sure if you tried, but you can also bridge the gap with XWayland

    I run the omnissa client (Horizon client from VMWare) on my daily driver on Wayland even though it's not supported. The client complains every day but works flawlessly

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I'm running a 2080ti and was able to switch to Wayland once plasma 6 was released. Prior to that it was completely unusable for me. Since then I had one issue earlier this year where multi monitor detection would hard lock my computer if I changed inputs on the monitor but didn't update display settings first.

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