Freezing in style

https://blog.broulik.de/2023/11/freezing-in-style/

by signa11 • 3 years ago

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xeyownt• 3 years ago

Still running X11 here, Wayland is just a major annoyance.

Justifying breaking so many use cases for so-called security reasons is imo a major design flaw.

earthscienceman• 3 years ago

As usual, everyone is having a different experience. Exact opposite here. I've been on Wayland two years and it's far more stable and reliable and pleasant. Are there problems, definitely. Are they different than the problems you're used to with X? definitely.

But in general everything works much better. Lower CPU usage, no random tearing or glitching or lost windows, hidpi percentage scaling is amazing and a godsend (and the reason I switched originally) and I couldn't be happier.

Thank you to all the devs for the amazing hard work!

fellerts• 3 years ago

Agree with GP, I ran Wayland (sway) for a few months and eventually switched back to X11. Graphical glitches, compositing latency, no reasonable screenshot tool and daily "I hope screen sharing works today" eventually became too much. For me, X11 just works and always has.

I hope X11 will work long enough for Wayland to sort out all its small annoyances.

trabant00• 3 years ago

hidpi percentage scaling is amazing and a godsend (and the reason I switched originally)

Fractional scaling is quite new (first introduced Nov 2022) in Wayland and still pretty experimental, I tried it last year with Fedora and couldn't get satisfactory text rendering. In X I've set fractional scaling with .Xresources Xft.dpi for over 10 years with great results. I'm having a hard time understanding how you switched for this.

josephcsible• 3 years ago

It seems to me that Wayland is a little bit better than X11 at all of the common things, at the cost of being way, way worse than X11 at the uncommon things.

Ferret7446• 3 years ago

More stable, as in you have experienced X crashing? In my decades of using it, I don't think I've seen X crash once. Well, maybe once when I was futzing around with Bumblebee?

Freezing in style

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