Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support

The 2010s saw the release of Wayland 1.0, Ubuntu's Mir initially being a "competitor" to now embracing Wayland, desktop environments like GNOME and KDE now having good support for it as an alternative to X11, and other functionality continues to be added to Wayland compositors and its standard protocols...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-2010s

[deadite66]

"Usable"

[khnazile]

I think I missed that day when KDE became usable with wayland session. A week ago it was still unusable.

[stormcrow]

I think I missed that day when KDE became usable with wayland session. A week ago it was still unusable.

*For some value of usable.

Not very usable for much of anything outside of a fairly narrow range of hardware and software combinations.

[jrch2k8]

*For some value of usable.

Not very usable for much of anything outside of a fairly narrow range of hardware and software combinations.

Well, if you have an AMD GPU(at least i can certify TAHITI, Cape Verde and ELLESMERE) and Gnome 3.30+(3.34 is best tho) wayland work very very well almost perfect i would dare to say.

Caveat: this is on ArchLinux but i can assume this will be very hit or miss on cycle distros since those tend to have old LLVM/mesa releases compared to upstream hence i'm not sure you get all the benefits right away

[andre30correia]

Well, if you have an AMD GPU(at least i can certify TAHITI, Cape Verde and ELLESMERE) and Gnome 3.30+(3.34 is best tho) wayland work very very well almost perfect i would dare to say.

Caveat: this is on ArchLinux but i can assume this will be very hit or miss on cycle distros since those tend to have old LLVM/mesa releases compared to upstream hence i'm not sure you get all the benefits right away

not true, since mir dead nobody make effords for wayland

[Vistaus]

Well, if you have an AMD GPU(at least i can certify TAHITI, Cape Verde and ELLESMERE) and Gnome 3.30+(3.34 is best tho) wayland work very very well almost perfect i would dare to say.

Caveat: this is on ArchLinux but i can assume this will be very hit or miss on cycle distros since those tend to have old LLVM/mesa releases compared to upstream hence i'm not sure you get all the benefits right away

Stop the GNOME indoctrination already! khnazile was talking about KDE.

[Guest]

Usable... hahahahahaha
working != usable

[Almindor]

I'm on Arch with Gnome and AMD RX580 and things work pretty well for me, including proton and native steam games and others. The most prevalent bug I hit is the "gnome top panel offset" on maximizing to fullscreen or re-entering fullscreen. It seems to be a gnome bug in that it forces the window handler libs to "refresh" geometry when not expected.

Otherwise I'd say it's better than Xorg used to be.

[stormcrow]

Well, if you have an AMD GPU(at least i can certify TAHITI, Cape Verde and ELLESMERE) and Gnome 3.30+(3.34 is best tho) wayland work very very well almost perfect i would dare to say.

Caveat: this is on ArchLinux but i can assume this will be very hit or miss on cycle distros since those tend to have old LLVM/mesa releases compared to upstream hence i'm not sure you get all the benefits right away

Which doesn't negate what I said. Wayland has a very narrow range of support where it's "usable". I personally despise Gnome, which makes Wayland pretty useless for me and my hardware.