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Anyone has been using Wayland with zero issues?

Is it just me, or are you folks running Wayland with no issues? I've even forgotten I was on Wayland until I looked at the settings the other day. I have all AMD, btw. I have zero issues so far. Anyone else?

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  • I would say it's mostly smooth except for a few annoyances like lots of apps not displaying icons correctly in taskbar or taskswitcher but a standard Wayland icon.

  • Yes, Plasma 6 was the turning point for me, since it introduced pixel-perfect fractional scaling on Wayland for just about every application.

    • Fractional scaling was the only issue that held me from using Wayland for way too long. So glad they've fixed it with 6, otherwise, I would have been still on x11

  • It works just fine on my laptop - Intel, openSUSE

    It mostly works fine on my desktop - Nvidia, endeavourOS

    Since the explicit sync fixes, the only problems I have are janky scrolling in Firefox / Librewolf and a couple of bugs with panels. They are annoying enough that I use X11 on the desktop.

  • I have been using Sway for ~2 years now without issues. AMD CPU and GPU. I am not super particular about input lag and stuff, but I haven't noticed any issues.

    I have a VM that runs windows for my work stuff and it has no issues I play video games via proton without issues either, other than having to muck around with a few titles launch options to unset my SDL video driver I stream to twitch periodically when I am bored and it works well by using the obs vkcapture plugin

  • I wouldn't say no issues, but nothing like what some people are complaining about. I only have one major issue in my opinion.

  • The only AMD (A10-7700K) that has given me problems with wayland uses by default the old radeon driver. I switched to the amdgpu driver and everything was solved.

  • Me, beside screen remote software not working everything else works flawlessly

  • The only issues I had were due to fractional scaling (blurry apps, especially Electron based ones; and windows opening or moving to weird edges, where I can't move them anymore).

    But those were already a few months or a year ago, and since I switched from Gnome to KDE 6, I have zero issues, neither on my laptop (integrated on CPU), nor on my desktop with an AMD GPU.

    And even over a year, almost two, ago, Wayland has been very smooth for me. I used Gnome for most of the time, which has always been very solid with Wayland. KDE has been a bit more janky in the past, but nowadays, Wayland feels way smoother and polished than X11 for me.

  • I tried it on a new Lenovo (AMD). The cursor size changed its size from normal to microscopic, depending on the application you hover over. Went back to X, no issues there.

    Still can't run Wayland on my system (Nvidia) at all.

  • Been using Plasma Wayland for a few years now with minimal issues.

  • Yeah no issues either really. Pipewire has had more than Wayland for me.

    Yeah, portals and all. But I just use modern applications, and am kinda lucky that the only Electron app I need with that feature (Signal Desktop) supports it.

    I keep a list of those apps, feel free to contribute!

    https://github.com/boredsquirrel/Recommended-Flatpak-Apps

    Btw, XWayland is a huge part. I force nearly all apps through Wayland now, and already had some major issues. I switched from VLC to Celluloid for that (never regret that)

  • Have not touched X11 since the proper Wayland support in the Nvidia drivers and Plasma 6. Its been super solid.

  • I've been using Wayland on my Debian 12 - KDE laptop, and it's been working fine, except for Flameshot. Also, the task bar has some freaky behaviour

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