Wayland pros and cons?
Hey guys, what are the pros and cons to wayland if I intend to use my PC for gaming + others?
Comparisons to X?
General impressions?
Your advice on if I should use it or stick with X?
My PC parts are arriving soon, and while Ive been a linux user since 2016 its the first time I intend to fully main drive linux, so I guess im just looking for as much information as I can get on it.
Feel free to post links to articles or anything that will answer if you prefer, we're on a link aggregator after all ;) and I dont mind reading.
Thanks in advance :)
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A major downside of even trying Wayland is that you need to throw away all the knowledge and all the little tools you built up over the years on X and start over from scratch. And that without a guarantee that you won't have to come back to X due to the lack of hardware support on one out of two major graphics card vendors.
But that is to be expected when switching stuff.
For new users this isn't really a problem though, but I agree with the sentiment
For new users it is mainly a problem for blog posts and similar sources that now provide solutions to their problems that no longer work.
Good point
I dont plan on using nvidia anytime soon so thats not an issue. As for tools, while ive been a long time linux user, this is the first time ill really be able to truly daily-drive/main a linux distro (previously my desktop was Windows and LTs were linux). So as for little tools, I dont mind either as Ill really start collecting/building them up now
Neither was I but with recent AI developments and those being a lot better supported on CUDA than AMD's ROCm it is a concern for some.
Im not aware of these, but either way I dont really dabble with AI so I doubt it would seriously affect me, at least for a very long time