Post AwXytIEV17oMhLcF28 by cooleech@mstdn.plus
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(DIR) Post #AwXl16MHeR64pR5OpU by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2025-07-27T01:36:55Z
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Since we did one for X11 lets do one for Wayland,For all the Wayland users out there, what is it that made you finally swap to Wayland? Or did some of you not even realize you've swapped to Wayland. #Linux
(DIR) Post #AwXl6mNspNWqcKXeC0 by warmbeverageenjoyer
2025-07-27T01:37:58.861860Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I only moved to Linux properly a few years ago, and went with Wayland because it was default on what I tried originally. Never felt the need to go to x
(DIR) Post #AwXl8qglnIgwXyMXOy by doctator@infosec.exchange
2025-07-27T01:38:17Z
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@BrodieOnLinux when i first switched to Linux I was using ubuntu with gnome, and I think it had wayland, and then I wanted to mess around with some software (can't remember the name) that lets you share multiple computers with one keyboard mouse and monitor... and it didn't like wayland, so ever since then I've been X11
(DIR) Post #AwXlglkieaPt5DNt1k by AkIN5RMKVSkgqIBLWa.jeff@mk.magicka.org
2025-07-27T01:44:28.235Z
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@BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social for me, it's that wayland is stored in the balls
(DIR) Post #AwXlifDTvRwXOIk0bQ by crimsonfall@mas.to
2025-07-27T01:44:43Z
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@BrodieOnLinux honestly it wasn’t by choice lol. When I upgraded to fedora 40 on KDE it made Wayland the only windowing system available. I was expecting the worst but honestly it’s been working extremely well even back then, shit I can now customize my tablet under KDE wayland, something which wasn’t even possible a few years before.
(DIR) Post #AwXmBuRKP9Gv0GAAOO by draqlo@mstdn.io
2025-07-27T01:50:03Z
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@BrodieOnLinux niri just looked too cool, so I had to try it and just ended up switching from dwm. everything I need is implemented. I also have a touchscreen laptop with Plasma Wayland on it, which handles touch controls better than X. I read that niri also has touchscreen controls, so I want to try it there too.
(DIR) Post #AwXmdAqFWxNJgwovrs by fenglengshun@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T01:54:53Z
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@BrodieOnLinuxinput-remapper, xwayland-video-bridge, OBS, Spectacle, Kwin.I realized that I'd rather base all of my solutions on Wayland tools instead of getting further entrenched in x11 ecosystem.Once it does most of my basic display right, and I found enough tools to cover most of my needs, I just moved so that I don't need to worry for the next ten years.I think x11 is just plain techdebt for both users and developers.
(DIR) Post #AwXnulwExXSRccZtr6 by mathieucomandon@fosstodon.org
2025-07-27T02:09:21Z
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@BrodieOnLinux HDR
(DIR) Post #AwXoA3y8CkFtt0knQ0 by roguehashrate@mstdn.social
2025-07-27T02:12:08Z
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@BrodieOnLinux because it's the default for gnome and I use gnome most of the time.
(DIR) Post #AwXp6MliSvIIzLkQSG by gtb@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-27T02:22:38Z
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@BrodieOnLinux For me it was the smoothness and instant reaction on touchpad gestures. On X or was either not that smooth or even without instant reaction (you had to finish the gesture before the action is triggered) depending on a distro. TouchEgg was close, but not there.
(DIR) Post #AwXq4KOCRNeaz5L8zI by mausmalone@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T02:33:30Z
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@BrodieOnLinux When I switched to Linux full-time I just installed Ubuntu and it was already defaulting to Wayland at that point. I didn't really even know about the ~discourse~ surrounding X11 vs Wayland until like 6 months later.I've never had any major issues, and I've been running with fractional scaling the whole time and using screen capture tools like Zoom for work. I think I needed to set a startup parameter for Firefox way back then but that's about all the work-arounds I've had to do
(DIR) Post #AwXqo4dVLIzvRoJPZw by charadon@8bit.red
2025-07-27T02:41:45Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I was running into a bug where Xorg was constantly probing the size of monitor, and it caused the log file (Xorg.0.log) to balloon to the hundreds of gigabytes.So I gave KDE5 wayland a try, and it worked so well, that by the end of the week I had actually forgotten I was using wayland now lolIn case anyone is wondering, that bug was caused by some interaction between Mesa and Xorg, and has since been fixed.
(DIR) Post #AwXrOGVcg22ShBsnq4 by alcinnz@floss.social
2025-07-27T02:48:15Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Honestly, I don't pay too much attention to which I'm on. But there's one sluggish laptop I've attempted to use for which I find I must use Wayland! X11 being too slow.(Incidentally that laptop has a different use now)
(DIR) Post #AwXsEBgZr4TUnKlVK4 by bloodaxe@fosstodon.org
2025-07-27T02:57:41Z
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@BrodieOnLinuxFor me it was all about better security.
(DIR) Post #AwXsTphrLDrDGCpDzU by elgosz@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T03:00:29Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I tried once when Ubuntu announced they will make it the default, I stayed with x11, I tried again 5 years ago, and it was smoother than x11, I did not went back
(DIR) Post #AwXwPH1YkMc0Lz7ZdA by screwlisp@gamerplus.org
2025-07-27T03:44:21Z
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@BrodieOnLinux CC@tusharhero @jameshowell ... @jwz (taking fish linux as a linux)
(DIR) Post #AwXytIEV17oMhLcF28 by cooleech@mstdn.plus
2025-07-27T04:12:19Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Plasma 6 did the trick. I tried Wayland before, on Plasma 5, but my nVidia GPU didn't play along.
(DIR) Post #AwY0TkZpDDlAz6XSim by sstendahl@floss.social
2025-07-27T04:30:07Z
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@BrodieOnLinux at the time, touchpad gestures on GNOME.
(DIR) Post #AwY3t8Cwn0odNQdFdA by ryanabx@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T05:08:17Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I always was on Wayland — I started using Linux late 2023. I had a brief start with mint before the Godot engine contributors chat led me to Fedora. The Godot engine had my first open source project contributions.
(DIR) Post #AwY7ZLrEjJ8DjhIiIq by madscientist16@mastodon.online
2025-07-27T05:49:35Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Fractional Scaling
(DIR) Post #AwYAE3BVGDXZbUJa2C by Solemarc@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T06:19:21Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I've been on Linux for 3-4 years, I started on popos 22.04. I decided I was going to try out this new "Wayland thing" and enabled it. It made my games run smoother but made steam a little more unstable. So I stuck with it, Steam is usually in the background it didn't matter. At the beginning of the year I switched to Arch and KDE, which was Wayland, and now I'm on niri, which is Wayland. So, I've always been using Wayland really.
(DIR) Post #AwYAGy7sWZBimf0k0u by Lu_Die_Milchkuh@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T06:19:53Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Proper multi-monitor setup with different refresh rates and resolutions, X11 is just way too outdated for basic stuff like that
(DIR) Post #AwYAeNTgQvmy4TN8wy by gravemind@fosstodon.org
2025-07-27T06:24:06Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I wanted to try out wayland and also fedora, and plasma 5.25 was getting the accent colour support at the time so felt like a good time to switch. Main reason to stick to it was different though. I was on mint on laptop and used my TV as only output when connected. Accidentally unplugged once and was left with no display until I rebooted *with* TV connected. Took a while to figure that out. Wayland had the common sense to switch to internal display. Saw the future in wayland 😅
(DIR) Post #AwYAvpqSDYuOyQLbf6 by baka@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T06:27:16Z
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@BrodieOnLinux fractional scaling. I have two displays with very different DPI
(DIR) Post #AwYBoHwXxtk5kxA8rg by kuulman@social.tchncs.de
2025-07-27T06:37:06Z
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@BrodieOnLinuxScreen tearing.
(DIR) Post #AwYIDtSSDtST4QgCW0 by HunterCZ122@mastodon.online
2025-07-27T07:48:58Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Mixed refresh rate displays, VRR and overall smoothness (X11 is laggy when dragging windows or scrolling, it can't keep up with my 280hz display), and now HDR, so using X11 is just downgrade for me now.
(DIR) Post #AwYJQy2AcXLwyvBRK4 by seindal@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T08:02:30Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I swapped when Wayland allowed paste by middle-click.I do miss being able to run GUI apps remotely.
(DIR) Post #AwYKTfygJGQFnuPItE by kuchenmampfer@chaos.social
2025-07-27T08:14:13Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I think it was already the default in one of the latest Plasma 5 versions when I switched to linux. What made me want to never go back was the ability to move with nice animations through my grid of workspaces by swiping with three fingers on my touchpad.
(DIR) Post #AwYLbx6obGmXCqioyG by rhoot@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-27T08:26:54Z
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@BrodieOnLinux two monitors with different refresh rates. Every single X11 compositor tearing as a result.
(DIR) Post #AwYNchCDRuVe3EjL8a by x43h@social.tchncs.de
2025-07-27T08:49:27Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Simply couriosity.After a short Periode of parallel operation (fallback), I've been using Wayland only for about too years now.
(DIR) Post #AwYObuCRiScG2v1bsG by pogodemon@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T09:00:30Z
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@BrodieOnLinux At first I just tried it and it was fine, so I stuck with it. Now, I can't go back to X11 due to how bad the fractional scaling is. Plasma Wayland works perfectly for that on my laptop.
(DIR) Post #AwYV9FNiaD271OZy08 by m0xEE@breloma.m0xee.net
2025-07-27T10:13:47.588627Z
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@BrodieOnLinuxGetting rid of screen tearing when scrolling through long pages in Firefox. I've been using dwm, switched to Sway — solved the problem, didn't create new ones. Perfect — not looking back!
(DIR) Post #AwYVNvG3gTc0x9zhOy by mage_of_dragons@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T10:16:26Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I ran DWM and then discovered Hyprland
(DIR) Post #AwYYCFLlSM6Jefmrp2 by jana@social.jsteuernagel.de
2025-07-27T10:47:55Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I tried it and noticed that immediately problems with screen tearing went away. Also the mouse settings were better and not every program can play keylogger by default. Also there is a more clean way for programs to request screen sharing.Overall: It just felt less like a mess.
(DIR) Post #AwYbfw59xRoyRlrw4u by TintedKiwi@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T11:26:55Z
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@BrodieOnLinux The promise of it being more secure by design. Finally switched to the Wayland session once Nvidia worked better with it
(DIR) Post #AwYc3bSyG7X9SRIAMa by macberg@mastodon.online
2025-07-27T11:31:12Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Specifically opted for Wayland when choosing a distro to switch to long-term from Windows. Because switching OS brings enough friction as is, and I didn't want to jump onto a dead branch, adapt to it, and then have to experience the friction again having to switch to Wayland in the future. Instead I get to experience ongoing improvement and life gets easier with time.
(DIR) Post #AwYeQpQmhjTzKyTJEu by notptr@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-07-27T11:57:46Z
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@BrodieOnLinux switch because I moved to KDE fedora from arch linux i3 setup.I had more problems with x11 than I have with wayland though I blame nvidia for that experience. My current setup has an amd card.
(DIR) Post #AwYgMS4Zo7lndw7nrU by gambloide@mastodon.online
2025-07-27T12:19:26Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I was a Fedora user when they made Wayland the default session and many things I took for granted either vanished or stopped working.At the time I found neither a workaround for making global hotkeys work, nor a functional window tiler under Wayland. If I remember correctly, it was either the same release or +/- 1, when they also moved from pulse-audio to pipewire. The amount of breakage was enough to make me go back to windows for ~2 years before coming back to desktop Linux.
(DIR) Post #AwYjF3uBYzR2WYQs7c by Akzel@mastodon.online
2025-07-27T12:51:42Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I had tried it on-and-off during my distro-hopping days, then I was maining elementary OS for about a year well before they had their Wayland session, then I switched to Fedora (and Silverblue soon after) when GNOME 40 came around and Wayland was already good enough for my needs at the time, so it stuck
(DIR) Post #AwYjWwffCNldIfAQxE by Ichthyx@piaille.fr
2025-07-27T12:54:52Z
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@BrodieOnLinux when I moved from nvidia to amd. I realized how bad the X11 renderer was without the custom NVIDIA with forcefullcompositor to get vsync without any weird glitch. I tried wayland and 2000 weird display bugs disapear finally I can have frame perfect.
(DIR) Post #AwYjtXaSct3UAEVYqu by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-07-27T12:59:00Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Add 1 to the group"automatically because I was using Ubuntu (LTS) at the time"so whenever their tweaked GNOME changed its LTS defaults (the first time round).The only other factor is that I was using Lubuntu 20.04 (LTS) for 2 years as LXQT had matured with lower resource use.So I was back on Wayland with the point LTS release i.e. 22.04.1I was aware of Wayland and that Intel/Skylake although already old were not have driver issues.
(DIR) Post #AwYmwzSRl9udKp617A by skeletonek@mastodon.social
2025-07-27T13:33:16Z
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@BrodieOnLinux After I connected a third monitor to my setup, X11 has stopped booting up at all. Wayland works without an issue
(DIR) Post #AwZnObVWrp4VfwOCki by fosrex@mastodon.world
2025-07-28T01:12:57Z
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Switched from i3 to Hyprland mostly because of your video. Hyprland felt smooth I don't know why(not talking about animations, I have those completely disabled) but I liked that and so I stuck with it.
(DIR) Post #AweVb8AkL59TigNzKC by thatsok@mastodon.social
2025-07-30T07:47:03Z
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@BrodieOnLinux The smoothness, the security features and the need of having something with some active development unlike the almost abandoned xorg. I still use xorg on some machines of mine because they either don't support wayland or Gnome/Kde are too heavy for them and i don't wanna set up hyprland every time