Curious from people who follow its development closely.

  • What protocol are about to be finally implemented?
  • Which ones are still a struggle?
  • How many serious protocols are there missing?

https://arewewaylandyet.com/

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    I recently tried to get Wayland working. Followed a simple guide to enable some NVIDIA boot parameter. Somehow it fucked my complete grub and I couldn't boot until I messed around a fair bit with live usbs. Cost me a whole evening.

    So I guess what Wayland is missing is normal support from the GPU manufacturers.

    • shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      I don't know how you messed that up, usually the switch is as easy as it can be, and the issue comes when using it, for its lack of explicit sync, causing apps to flicker, and frame pacing in games to be plain bad

      This is being fixed in the next two months thankfully

      Edit: Taking about Nvidia wayland support here, AMD and Intel are great

    • frazorth@feddit.uk
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      5 months ago

      Nvidia didn't want to play nicely and give standard APIs.

      Their work around was other extensions that don't actually do what's needed, but sort of works in some scenarios.

      All the GPUs I've used work fine, it's a Nvidia throwing it's toys out the pram situation which should hopefully get resolved as they open source the high level drivers and so the correct APIs can be implemented.