Hey Community,

Since I just read a post about the X11 vs. Wayland situation I’m questioning if I should stay on X11, or switch to Wayland. Regarding this decision, I’m asking you for your opinions plus please answer me a few questions. I will put further information about my systems at the bottom.

  • What are the advantages of Wayland? What are the disadvantages?
  • I do mostly music production, programming, browsing, etc, but occasionally I’m back into gaming (on the desktop). How’s performance there? Anything that might break?
  • what would be the best way to migrate?
  • why have/haven’t you made the switch?

Desktop: Ryzen 3100, 16 Gig Ram, Rx 570 Arch Linux with KDE 144 hz Freesync Monitor and 60hz shitty monitor

laptop: Thinkpad L540 (iirc), i3 4100, 8 GB Ram intel uhd630 gfx (iirc) Arch Linux with heavily customized i3-gaps

  • @i_lost_my_bagelA
    2•1 year ago

    I’m not switching on my main laptop until xwayland app scaling is figured out. Either figure out how to make the apps scale properly or just leave them tiny on my screen. None of this stretching them to fit and making them blurry bullshit.

    I use it on everything else because all my other computers don’t have high dpi screens.

    • 2xsaikoEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      That’s up to the compositor. Plasma can keep them unscaled, for example. Not sure about others.

    • @norapink@lemmy.world
      1•1 year ago

      KDE plasma has this feature. You can choose between forcing x11 apps to scale or allowing x11 apps to scale themselves. Some apps won’t scale at all when you do the latter option but most at least increase the font size or have their own way of scaling.

      • @i_lost_my_bagelA
        1•1 year ago

        I’m aware plasma has it but I don’t like plasma that much. I’m currently waiting for it to be integrated into other compositors (mainly sway).