Wayland vs X11

[Reilly Brogan]

For Solus we kept X11 as the default session due to various missing 
ecosystem features such as KVM software (input-leap now seems to fill 
this niche) and because of a relatively poor Nvidia experience that has 
since been massively improved with new driver releases and several 
bugfixes to our driver packaging.

We're in the middle of rolling out Plasma 6.2 to our users and once 
that's settled we plan on switching to the Wayland session by default 
(roughly the end of November/early December).

I would note though that many of the issues that come across our tracker 
from Wayland users are multi-GPU related, though I'm not sure that the 
situation on X11 is any better. It would be nice to see some focus there 
for the 6.3/6.4 cycles.

Regards,
Reilly

On 10/30/24 9:24 PM, Nate Graham wrote:
> Hello distro folks!
>
> Today I have an open-ended question for you. As you're aware, Plasma 
> 6.0 switched to Wayland by default. Those of you who switched your 
> distribution back to X11, what were the reasons? And what changes 
> would be sufficient for you to switch back?
>
> The reason I'm asking is because Plasma and KWin devs are pretty much 
> all-in on Wayland now, and I'd like to know what still needs 
> improvement to get us 100% distro coverage.
>
> Private replies are fine if you're not comfortable sharing publicly.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
> Nate
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