My move to wayland: it's finally ready
My move to wayland: it's finally ready
I was a Wayland detractor, had very bad experiences with it in the past, but I decided to give it a try again, and it’s time to say goodbye to Xorg.
Let's talk about #Linux on the desktop, #Gnome and the state of #Wayland in 2024.
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I've just had to switch back to X11 from Wayland on Nobara, because I couldn't get Sunshine to work no matter what I tried, my windows were occasionally flickering black, and my taskbar kept freezing. So I guess I'll wait a little bit more.
What hardware do you have? I have all AMD, and it works just fine on Nobara on Wayland.
Unfortunately, NVIDIA. I was buying a new PC half a year ago, and only started even considering to make the switch to Linux few months after that, so I am at a pretty unlucky point where I just had recently spent a lot of money for new-gen PC, but without knowing that I should really go for AMD.
I will make the switch to AMD as soon as it's justifiable, but I'm too lazy to deal with second-hand resale and it's hard to justify a new GPU when I still have the current gen, but from wrong manufacturer.
I totally empathize. I did the same thing at the end of 2020 and just switched to an AMD GPU last month.
I had numerous problems with Wayland when I had an NVIDIA video card. Since I switched to an AMD video card, it has been a blissful experience. Wayland now works perfectly.
You could sell your old one and buy a new one. I think people are still buying up Nvidia GPUs like crazy.
Did you file a bug report with the Sunshine devs?
Ooh, you are right, I can actually file bug reports or try to fix it myself now that I switched to FOSS from Windows. Tbh that didn't really occur to me, since I was switching only like a month ago. I'll look into it, so far I suspect that it's actually covered by one of those troubleshooting cases mentioned in their FAQ, and I'm not really confident enough to start recompiling libraries with additional flags. Especially since I'm on Nobara and don't want to break anything, AFAIK that OS is pretty customised from the start and figuring out what I can safely touch isn't something I have the guts for yet.