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Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026? (michael.stapelberg.ch)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/840798

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Author sounds like the problem. Simple obstacles to making it work just fine in the way that you refuse to address, so this is on you.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Seemed like he outlined everything he did and had decent points. I dislike articles that say "Here's what you're doing wrong" or "This GPL app is better than that GPL app". But this one seems much more of a "This is what I do and how I do it". I enjoy those. He's not saying it for everyone, just his use cases and results.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    2nd paragraph:

    Unfortunately, the driver support situation remained poor for many years. With nVidia graphics cards, which are the only cards that support my 8K monitor, Wayland would either not work at all or exhibit heavy graphics glitches and crashes.

    So answering the headline question: it would work if you just stopped using the 8k monitor

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    If your argument for Wayland is "stop using thousands of dollars in hardware to get it working", then that's not going to convince anyone. He doesn't address that as a solution because that's obviously a last resort.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago

    No, it's actually the opposite. He has an 8k monitor. Get rid of that, and then he has no blockers to using things the way he wants. Pretty simple solution.

    If you buy hardware that is wildly incompatible with almost everything, then there's your problem. You don't buy things knowing it's incompatible, and then wait for compatibility to come around whilst complaining about it UNLESS you intend to buy it to put some effort into making it work on your own.

    That's the entire point of this ecosystem and being able to upstream fixes.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    for real. Been using wayland on NixOS with nvidia gpu for several months now without issue. The only problem's I've had are with sway, because their devs hate nvidia and refuse to support it, and i refuse to use nouveau. Solution: don't use sway.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I bought an AMD gpu to use sway and it is still broken, don't use sway.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Broken in what way? I only used it a short while years ago and didn't notice anything.

    Using Niri now on an AMD GPU with great success, it's working great. Using it for work, gaming, everything I did with i3 and Hyprland before it.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Also using the yuzu works (eden and citron) performance is awful, like half the FPS I used to get on i3wm, this also happens in hyprland but not in plasma, apparently this is because the two window managers lack fifo v1 (hyprland did add it a few months ago, I need to check if it works better now).

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