• EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    As someone with a GTX 1080 running GNOME Wayland for at least the last four years, why is everyone claiming the sky is falling on Nvidia users with this change? Do you actually use Nvidia to be saying we’ll have a bad time? Sure the support is miles better on AMD, but it’s not absolutely borked. For me it’s on par with my X11 experience, because both sessions have weird Nvidia support quirks tbh.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 months ago

      on a 2070 i get stuttery(er) performance and small hangs on the desktop, noticeably.higher latency and issues with rendering windows sometimes. games and ai work as expected.

      i guess it depends on the hardware and or combination

  • Solaris1789@jlai.lu
    9·
    9 months ago

    This is way too early especially for people running nvidia or still relying on software that can’t work properly on wayland. I guess im sticking to xfce for a long while

    • Aganim@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      I certainly hope the Wayland experience is better on Gnome than it is on KDE, otherwise a lot of Gnome users are not going to be happy. I tried KDE with Wayland and oh boy… Just some things I noticed on a daily basis:

      Applications going completely unresponsive, as in: requiring kill -9 to terminate them. Solved for now by reverting to X11.

      Stuff like the display configuration screen placing a gap between my external monitor and laptop screen, and then complaining that screens must be placed adjacently. Annoying as both X11 and Wayland insist on defaulting my 5120x1440 display to 640x480 each time I reconnect it, so I see that screen way too often. At least with X11 I don’t have to manually drag screens to their proper places before being able to save my settings.

      Window manager just completely locking up at random, requiring a hard reset.

      If my experience on an AMD graphics laptop just under a year old is that bad, I hate to think how horrible the Wayland experience for Nvidia users must be judging by the comments here.

  • fitgse@sh.itjust.works
    93·
    9 months ago

    This is sad. I still prefer xorg over Wayland. I have so many small customizations that depend on devilspie, wnck, and other tools that don’t have a complete Wayland replacement yet.

    • tal@lemmy.today
      9·
      9 months ago

      I mean, I don’t disagree, but at some point it’s gotta change if one is going to ever be able to have desktop apps that run sandboxed. X was never designed to have untrusted and trusted apps running on the same desktop, and the ways of approximating that are non-ideal.

      What WM are you using? If it’s sticking specific application windows on specific workspaces, i3 can do that:

      https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html

      And I understand that sway is mostly compatible with i3.

      • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
        86·
        9 months ago

        Why does the entire Linux community assume that sandboxed apps are something we all want/need these days? I have no interest in sandboxed apps tbh. It makes sense for certain situations but I’m happy without them. I don’t like how Flatpak isolates all apps’ config files off into their little sandboxes and makes editing config files annoying. I just want stuff maintained in a central package manager and I want to use software that’s trustworthy enough that it doesn’t need to be sandboxed in the first place.

        I use Wayland, but mainly because VRR support is better (except having to keep rebuilding mutter-vrr every time GNOME updates) and I don’t get screen tearing. Couldn’t care any less than I do now about sandboxed apps or unnecessary forced security. I hate that screen capture gets broken on a lot of programs running in Wayland and that global keybinds get messed up because of “designed with security in mind” bullshit. An operating system’s job should be to provide software with the features it needs, not to restrict said features.

        • FOSS Is Fun@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          I don’t like how Flatpak isolates all apps’ config files off into their little sandboxes and makes editing config files annoyin

          In my opinion this is one of the best features of Flatpak, as it allows you to uninstall applications cleanly without leaving random files (or entries in your registry / dconf database) all over your computer. Since my first Android phone I always admired how Android handles uninstallation of apps and thanks to Flatpak I can finally have a similar experience on my Linux PCs.

          It also allows me to keep a clean home directory, as I don’t allow any Flatpak app to write into the root of my home directory (via global override). So any application (e. g. Firefox) that thinks it is more important than the XDG Base Directory Specification can no longer clutter up my home directory and instead gets redirected to its Flatpak home in ~/.var.

          These two use cases alone sold me on Flatpak two years ago and I’ve since migrated all my computers to Flatpak and I wouldn’t want to go back. I can’t understand how (Windows) users still put up with applications reading from and writing into random directories on their PCs and creating or modifying random entries in the registry.

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
      2·
      9 months ago

      calm lol, it is only a 8 line text file, that you can put there again it’s just a sign that gnome isn’t working on x11(there is other pull request that it REALLY remove x11 code, but it gonna take some timw, there is a few blockers that need tobe fixed or implemented) everything i said is in the pull request