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Yes, since Fedora 21 when it switched by default.
It hasn't really caused game breaking issues for me, however it is nice that the few nit-picks have all been resolved.
I get the sense that the majority of people use it on Workstations, there is just a vocal minority that resists the change. There are so many academic and enterprise users just using distros in their default state Wayland and all.
I've been using Sway for over 2 years, and for my workflow it works well, with one exception I just can't get vscode to scale properly for my display.
Whenever Nobara moves to KDE 6, I'll probs switch over to Wayland. Likely sometime this year.
I tried it a few times on different hardware. There were weird lags, freezes, crashes, latency, artifacts, flickering (once I had to reinstall the system to fix it), no cursor in games etc etc so no thanks. It doesn't work for me. Maybe it's possible to fix if I spend a week in the terminal but ehh idk. It's just not ready for me I guess. And I didn't even have enough time to find compatibility issues. I'm a little bit afraid that by the time Wayland is ready, a new system will already be required lol. It's getting better though so probably it will be ready for business/production in a few years idk. The only thing I can definitely tell is that it must not be the default on regular desktop distros now. Wayland may be good but it's not mature. Switching to it on the login screen is a 3 seconds task and it fixes so many issues, especially on older hardware
A couple years(ish) on intel-only laptops. I run it with KDE Plasma. I only think about it when I see a thread like this one.
For me it Just Works™. I recognize that being intel-only may be a contributing factor, and my certification of Just Works™ is not to imply dismissal of any problems others may be having. 🙂
No, I see no benefits
I use Wayland since I got a second monitor, since X can't handle mixed DPI. I'd use X otherwise, since global hotkeys work there
Global hotkeys work in kde wayland and hyprland!
Ye, since Plasma 5.24 I think. Used to occasionally switch to X11 for competitive gaming, but as of Plasma 6 their Wayland compositor supports fullscreen tearing, so now I have no need to use X11 anymore
I've been daily driving it on some devices for maybe 6 months.
My only showstopper was input-leap, but I have not had to use it for two months. So I've gone all-in since. It works better in every sense - except for the input-leap thing.
input-leap
this software has wayland support already https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap/issues/109
Cool.
Last I checked kwin was still waiting for some protocols to become available. I'm sure it'll be good to go if and when I need another Mac on my desk to synergize.
There was another server that already supported wayland/gnome, but the scrolling was too wonky for my nerves.
A year-ish, Plasma, Intel iGPU for Desktop and Nvidia offload for Steam. It's great.
When VMWare Horizon Client (which I need for work) supports it
I have a laptop with integrated Intel graphics and a desktop with Nvidia graphics. I use Wayland on the former right now as of KDE 6. I have noticed some odd behaviors, but overall it has been fine. The latter, however, just boots to a black screen. I have neither the time nor the desire to debug that right now, so I will adopt Wayland on that machine when it works with Nvidia to a reasonable degree of stability.
I've been using it since about spring 2022 and it's been way more reliable than X for me. The only times I've had trouble was one computer where I was missing one of the pipewire packages I needed for screen sharing and another time I tried to run it on a 20 year old Radeon X1600, but both of those were my fault and not something a normal user is likely to encounter. For context I've used Sway, Hyprland, GNOME, and Plasma although the usability has been the same between all of them.
I have been for the past month now. All of my games are now working.
Previously no and the reason was bc of Nvidia issues, but they all seem resolved now for the most part
I'm on AMD, so I've been on Wayland since around 2021. Haven't really experienced any issues.
Gsync doesn't work yet so... Not yet for me.
Also, they need to fix the load apps in last location like X has
Been running Wayland for 5 years on my development laptop (sway, Intel GPU, blacklisted the nvidia gpu). At the start I've had a couple of issues, nothing too bad. Haven't had any issues for over 2 years. Switched to Linux on my gaming PC about a year ago, KDE plasma on Wayland but do most of my gaming from a steam gamescope session. Very happy overall with Wayland, glad it exists. Sharp text on a fractionally scaled display for reading code was just too compelling at the time and it only improved.
I've been using Wayland since the end of last year, I haven't done any real benchmarking but games run about the same for me on either.
I have for more than a year. I've never had a single problem, but I'm on an all AMD system.