I’ve been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia).

I thought it was okay for the most part but then I had to switch to an X session recently. The experience felt about the same. Out of curiosity, I played a couple of games and realized they worked much better. Steam doesn’t go nuts either.

Made me think maybe people aren’t actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community. And that maybe I should just go back.

  • Max-P
    2•1 year ago

    Probably like 3+ years on the laptop (Intel), approaching 1 year on the desktop (AMD).

    Wayland + NVIDIA is still a disaster and a very inferior experience compared to the AMD side. I would stick with Xorg if I had NVIDIA too.

    Only on Intel or AMD do you get a Wayland experience that makes you go “wow I can’t wait for Xorg to be dead for good”. I had a very, very noticeable improvement even years ago on Wayland when it comes to triple monitor performance, VRR and vsync in general. Now that screen capture and stuff is mostly figured out, it works perfectly for me.

    At this point my only issues with Wayland are related to features that haven’t been implemented yet, not bugs or performance issues. And I’m more than willing to workaround the limitations and take the benefits.

    I’ve been patiently following development and waiting to switch for 10 years, first exploring Wayland with the EGLStream patch for Weston on my GTX 580. Even back then you could feel the difference, but obviously it was also unusable other than demos.