worth switching to wayland?

[heikkikk]

Hi.
I have been thinking if it is already good time to switch to Wayland or not.

How about the performance with NVIDIA graohics card, is it working worse, equal or better than with xorg?

Thanks.

[s0ulslack1]

Absolutely! Running a 1050 TI with Wayfire and I regret not checking things out sooner.

As with anything new it can be a pita to get working but glad this dinosaur jumped

[heikkikk]

Which driver should i pick for
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)

for Wayland?

And does that driver work with DaVinci Resolve (which currently works with X11 for me and nvidia closed source drivers)

[mistah_monocle]

Man I wanna try Wayland, but I'm just nervous about the stability of dwl. I am way too attached to dwm to switch lol
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[tld]

Personally I couldn't have less desire to switch to anything than I do for Wayland...with the exception of systemd. I'm hoping that at some point someone picks up support for X11 if the freedesktop.org devs drop that. Why should Wayland be stable after only being around for 13 years right?
The lack of anything like X11 forwarding alone is enough to ice that one for me. On my LAN I use that all the time.

Tom

[heikkikk]

ok, i switched to Wayland (keeping the X11 also)
and now i cannot seem to get some programs or features working with wayland, like Zoom video conferencing app can't share screen.

so, i switched back to X11

Altho i would like to use waydroid, which only works on wayland...

un saludo...

[spica]

[Goverp]

[spica]

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[rab0171610]

"wayland is a gain in security. The fact that you cannot - in principle - avoid that your browser is reading the root password you type in another window alone is a reason to switch. "
Please explain to me how a browser is going to capture me typing my root password in a terminal when that password is not even visible or in clear text? I do need that much security. There are other ways to make sure you are not being snooped and spied upon. Wayland is not clearly better for everyone. Maybe that is necessary and works in your use case but that doesn't make it true for everyone.

[stefan11111]

[Hu]

By default, Xorg allows processes to monitor keystroke events for windows other than their own. Therefore, if you type your root password in the xterm running /bin/su, other X11 clients can see it. Since it is a keylogger, rather than a screenscraper, the lack of echo does not impact it.

[stefan11111]

[rab0171610]

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[Ja.KooLit]

check out hyprland if you go for wayland

[allistarM]

I'm curious about Wayland too, but I don't want to break my production rig. I have a two GPU, 6 monitor setup and KDE (in particular Plasma) doesn't work across more than one xscreen. Annoyingly it ignores the DISPLAY= variable so I can't limit it to one xscreen, and I can't run more than one instance of it. As it is I have a hand modified version of plasma-workspace to get it to ignore the monitors on the second xscreen (they used the xrandr output name as a way to identify monitors but this doesn't work as these are not unique when you have more than one GPU).

Right now I'm using X11 and Compiz and it works very well. There will come a time when compiz stops working though. I hope Wayland (and Plasma) work with a multiple GPU environment.

[enhaced]

[greyspoke]

Well I have used the Plasma Wayland session uneventfully until I switched to tty1 and then switched back to tty7. Instead of my Plasma session I got the ssdm log-in screen, greyed out and inactive. So back to the Plasma X session for now.

[asturm]

Works fine for me. Are you sure your Plasma session had been on tty7 in the first place?

[wjb]

I tried it for a weekend. Mostly nothing different, but VirtualBox VMs didn't work, which is a deal-breaker for me. Yes I know it's VirtualBox being arse, but it's still 'nope'.