• 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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    28 months ago

    Some time ago I switched to Wayland running Hyprland on my laptop. It basically works but I don’t do much except using some web apps.

    On my PC I also switched to Wayland recently, running labwc. While basic stuff works, a lot of my daily use case doesn’t.

    On Wayland you can barely record your screen (doesn’t work for me at all with useless error message), let alone simultaneously recording multiple different windows and multiple different audio and video sources all going into different channels.

    Also gaming (No Mans Sky on Steam): The Steam UI flickers like hell, and even games run extremely bad, low FPS, flickering of certain parts. Same for native games. Minetest is downright unusable due to extreme flickering of the whole window.

    On X11: all of this works flawlessly and out of the box.

    • ddh
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      28 months ago

      Wonder what’s going on with your games. I’m running various new Windows games on Wayland with no flickering and 120+ FPS. It’s an AMD GPU though.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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        18 months ago

        The steam UI is flickering and in No Mans Sky some parts are also flickering and have visible artifacts. Minetest, well, the whole window constantly and heavily flickers with whitescreen (I’d screenrecord for demonstration, but that doesn’t work either.). I have no idea why. I just know that on X11 it works flawlessly without any tweaks.

        Maybe one of the many Nvidia issues.

        I am too uninterested in Wayland to really care. I just switch to X11 for gaming.

        • Noa Himesaka
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          18 months ago

          That is NVIDIA problem and it will be fixed soon because explicit sync support is getting merged.