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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don't believe that they're a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland's technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don't want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don't want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn't think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, the lack of GAMMA_LUT has been a thorn for me as well. I've tried getting around it every now and then by putting on some glasses that I picked up a while ago that just have the blue light tinting built in, but eh.

Another massive problem is some applications, electron based especially, basically "rewind" frames every so often. I'm not even sure how to explain it, but for example you can be typing and a few letters will revert, then come back in... it's very strange. Other applications also just have their UI stop rendering completely until restarted (KDE's taskbar being an annoying occurrence when it happens).

I have an older MacBook that I occasionally use with Fedora + KDE and Wayland works much better there, it's only integrated graphics AFAIK so I keep my expectations tempered, but it's definitely still smoother than Nvidia + Wayland which is just... sad.

I really would love to test it with an AMD card some day, but I have way too many other things to worry about than picking up a new GPU for the time being.