* On 2022 11 Mar 07:16 -0600, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-03-11 12:47 UTC+0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > I have used Gnome on Wayland since late 2018. It improved a lot with > > the release of Bullseye. I use this setup on two machines, a laptop and > > a desktop that has two monitors. So far I have not had any issues with > > And what is the practical _advantage_ over a X11 setup? Gnome is now native with Wayland and its visual effects only work with Wayland as I understand it. I did try Gnome Flashback as it runs on X11 and the visual effects were disabled. In some cases that's not an issue and is likely appropriate for some hardware. > The question is serious. Everytime I tried Wayland, something was not > working as expected, uncomfortable to use and so on. Yes, Wayland > support has improved a lot, but I still do not really see what I miss > because I stick to X11. I know that Wayland has a cleaner design, but > that bothers me not too much as a user. Interesting as no one uses Wayland or X11 directly but through a window manager or quite likely one of the desktop environments. Debian packaging seems to sort this out where a DE like Xfce only installs Xorg packages and Gnome installs Wayland and Xwayland. That said, if hardware support is not present, then I suspect that any advanced features will have problems. Use what works for you. I am just providing my experience as I'm not a cheerleader for Wayland or against Xorg, just a satisfied user of both. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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