Hey guys, what are the pros and cons to wayland if I intend to use my PC for gaming + others?
Comparisons to X?
General impressions?
Your advice on if I should use it or stick with X?
My PC parts are arriving soon, and while Ive been a linux user since 2016 its the first time I intend to fully main drive linux, so I guess im just looking for as much information as I can get on it.
Feel free to post links to articles or anything that will answer if you prefer, we’re on a link aggregator after all ;) and I dont mind reading.
Thanks in advance :)
The pros and cons boil down to wayland has no awesomewm-like window manager and Xorg has, well, awesomewm…
Really, what it should come down to as an individual is that all of the x11 devs left to work on Wayland because x11 is unmaintainable.
Use Wayland if it works for you, if you find something that doesn’t work, go back to x11 and find the issue tracker and switch back if you care for the benefits later.
The benefits:
- A better security model
- More efficient rendering
- Better animations
- Better support for multi displays (mixed refresh rate/dpi)
- HDR (soon)
- Better color management (soon)
The only problems I have currently is sway doesn’t support single window capture and the XWayland clipboard isn’t great.
Wayland is great these days. Love Wayland for touchsceen. Only thing missing for me is software kvm like synergy. Looks to be on the near horizon though.
Wayland fixes a number of bugs and fundamental issues in X.Org. It is also much more actively developed, and it seems likely that over time new hardware will stop working with X.Org due to bugs nobody is interested in fixing (this is already the case for the Apple M1/M2 GPU drivers).
On the other hand, Wayland also introduces a number of additional bugs. However, some distros like Fedora have enabled it by default for years. In practice, most of the bugs relate to at least one of Nvidia’s drivers, DPI scaling, and DEs with less mature support. If you’re using an AMD GPU, 1080p display, and GNOME, you’ll likely have few issues and possibly even a better experience compared to X.Org.
Wayland is generally great. The only reason I’ve stuck with X11 is a few random bugs and issues that still aren’t solved in Wayland.
I’m planning on switching over to Wayland fully at the end of this year. Seems like every 6 months I try it and there are less issues than before.
Try them both, plenty of folks have no issues at all running Wayland right from the start, so give it a go and see what happens.
