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Let's talk about #Linux on the desktop, #Gnome and the state of #Wayland in 2024.

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[–] snaggen@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

If you avoid Nvidia, it have been ready for many years. And to be honset, not sure X11 was really stable with Nvidia either. My main issue with Wayland, is that X doesn't have multi dpi support... and for that I really cannot blame Wayland. Also, Skype doesn't have screensharing, well, they actually had for a while, but then removed it... still, hard to blame on Wayland.

But as a general rule, if you have Nvidia, then you are not allowed to complain about anything... that was your choice, and with Nvidia under Linux, all bets are off. I thought that was clear a long time a go, especially after Linus not so subtle outburst.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ha, your first sentence is just plain wrong. It was quite broken under "normal" usecases with per-DE bugs.

For example, on KDE, about 1.5 years ago the bug finally got fixed where your Wayland session would completely crash if your monitor lost any signal whatsoever (monitor sleep or shutting off the monitor). If you ask me, that is an very standard usecase without which there is no world where said action crashing the entire session would be considered ready for general use.

I think we are there now, just some visual glitches nowadays, also some recent glitches with monitor sleep, but Wayland very rarely crashes anymore.

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