X11 or Wayland?

Hi everyone!

I switched from GTX 1660 Ti to RX 7600 XT GPU and started to think should I switch to Wayland or stay on X11?

I daily drive my PC to game, do document related work, programming and sometimes making funny 3D things in Blender.

What would you recommend? - Staying on X11 or switching to Wayland?

Both.

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.

Unfortunately, Wayland vs X11 is a highly controversial topic sometimes.

On top of that, the results will vary a lot depending on your hardware and config.

I would recommend trying both and seeing which gives you better results.

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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

Well I’ve been on X11 for a long time due to my GPUs always were from Nvidia, but now I got an AMD card and I guess I should give Wayland a try :slight_smile:

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Why not? If you decide you don’t like it, you can switch back.

I try it every 6 months or so to see how many of my blockers have been resolved.

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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.

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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.

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Do you know any information about current state of VR on Wayland?

No i don’t have VR set sorry nor any info on that.

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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.

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Based on all answers in that topic I guess I’ll try Wayland on my hardware and make some conclusions about should I switch to Wayland or not.

Thanks everyone for answering :heart:

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You don’t have to “switch” is what we are saying.
You can use it for its strengths and use X11 alongside it.

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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 :wink:

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I’ve been logging into a Wayland session exclusively for well over a year on KDE Plasma. It’s never caused me and problems.

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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).

Same here.

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.

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