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Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia).

I thought it was okay for the most part but then I had to switch to an X session recently. The experience felt about the same. Out of curiosity, I played a couple of games and realized they worked much better. Steam doesn't go nuts either.

Made me think maybe people aren't actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community. And that maybe I should just go back.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not yet. Biggest dealbreaker for me is screen sharing not working in Slack, which I need for work. Once that’s no longer an issue I will be more inclined to make the move. Given that plasma is becoming the default choice for distros, I hope Slack devs will make this a priority.

What I look forward the most with Wayland is actual support for fractional scaling. I think fractional scaling is required for a pleasant experience when using high dpi monitors, but Slack screen sharing has higher priority for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I actually had to switch to Wayland to be able to stream with audio on Discord.

[–] Amongussussyballs100 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

WHAT! might I ask if you need any special version of discord? Or does audio sharing just-work on wayland

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The official Discord app is halfway there. Sharing a window works with sound, sharing the entire screen doesn't work at all. Webcord can share the entire screen, though I don't know about sound yet.

To be entirely fair, Discord on windows can't share the entire screen with sound either, at least for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes as far as I know you need special clients for now. I’ve been using discord-screenaudio for a year or so and it works on Wayland. Also with the latest update of Webcord I’ve been able to stream with audio but friends are saying that it doesn’t sound as good.

Other than showing the xdg-portal popup when sharing your screen the experience is essentially the same as the Discord app.