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mindslightyesterday at 6:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

After reading about Wayland for 10 (?) years and thinking it was some huge deal, I finally took the leap as I was redoing my window manager anyway and it was quite easy (at least on NixOS). Heck virt-viewer (one of my main apps) is still running under Xwayland because the performance seems better.


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Gareyesterday at 6:20 PM

10 years ago Wayland was in much worse state. It started being good in the last few years, though some features are still lacking.

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kmeisthaxyesterday at 7:35 PM

The only reason why I'm not running Wayland on my Framework laptop is that there's some really weird bug where it hardlocks the system, and after I force-reboot it, the audio chip doesn't come back up unless I drain or unplug the battery. X11 doesn't have this issue.

Of course, this was also several years ago, and it's possible the bug has been fixed. Maybe I should try Wayland again.