I use X11 for work, which includes screen sharing. And I use Wayland for games.
In fact, gaming currently works better on Wayland (Hyprland) for my system.
If you use KDE, Gnome or Qtile, you can have just one DE/WM with both worlds.
A little question about screensharing. Is xwaylandvideobridge is a thing for now? Like I heard someone was complaining 6 or 7 months ago that discord screen share doesn’t work under Wayland
I wouldn’t know. I do screen sharing on X11 only. There are workarounds, but I haven’t tried them because I pretty much only do screen sharing for work. Won’t waste time testing something that isn’t consistent or fully supported.
The only things that are keeping me away from Wayland is that tales from forums that Wayland is bad, Nvidia’s isn’t optimized for it and a bad performance of VR
Does are old! Wayland works great on most hardware today!
I run Wayland with Nvidia since at least 1 and a half year No problems in games or anything ells.
The vast majority of those opinions are either going to be highly subjective or based on a single person’s personal experiences.
Here is some objective information. The majority of applications work fine on Wayland. However, some either don’t support all functionality or don’t work at all. The same is true is hardware and certain configs.
In the end, even if it is a small percentage of applications, hardware or specific use-cases that don’t work well, if you fall into that group, you will have challenges.
That is why your best bet here is to try it and see what your personal results are.
Exactly. Some update breaks X11 or Wayland, or some feature (screen cap/share) doesn’t work? Just use the other, no need to add unnecessary weight to the decision
Nearly two years here…and I’ve only launched X11 to test if something worked there that didn’t in Wayland (and the answer has always (except once) been no).
I am new to Endeavour OS and just deleted Windows a week ago and replaced it with this really interesting system. I am used to Ubuntu and tried Garuda, but this was a little bit bloated.
As I can see I am using Wayland right now and already installed games like Diablo IV which works, when I set the graphics a little bit lower than in Windows. I tried to start the Battle.Net-Launcher with X11, but this did not work. My laptop uses a Nvidia RTX 3060 mobile. Is there a performance difference between X11 and Wayland?
Sometimes Wayland and Nvidia don’t play well together. It’s very system-specific. If something doesn’t work, or doesn’t work well in Wayland, just reboot and switch to an X11 session to see if that changes anything.