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[–] Jumuta 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

what issues are you having on wayland? I run nvidia+intel and it's completely fine (way faster on old machines too)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's not that I have issues - it works just fine in the domain it's designed for. It's that the Wayland system does not provide feature parity with X11. I make extensive use of window manipulation using xdotool and wmctrl for my daily use case, and those are both unsupported on Wayland. It's a fine system for users whose use case fit with its design. It is not a feature complete replacement for X11.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No issues at all ngl I wish all the lightweight desktops supported it :(

[–] Jumuta 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ig support is a big issue but I use sway on old computers and it runs really smooth

I get that you might want to stick to your favorite desktop though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

i am saying lxqt and jwm and stuff like that lxqt has some experimental wayland support but jwm doesn't but its possible for them to add it.