Hey Community,

Since I just read a post about the X11 vs. Wayland situation I’m questioning if I should stay on X11, or switch to Wayland. Regarding this decision, I’m asking you for your opinions plus please answer me a few questions. I will put further information about my systems at the bottom.

  • What are the advantages of Wayland? What are the disadvantages?
  • I do mostly music production, programming, browsing, etc, but occasionally I’m back into gaming (on the desktop). How’s performance there? Anything that might break?
  • what would be the best way to migrate?
  • why have/haven’t you made the switch?

Desktop: Ryzen 3100, 16 Gig Ram, Rx 570 Arch Linux with KDE 144 hz Freesync Monitor and 60hz shitty monitor

laptop: Thinkpad L540 (iirc), i3 4100, 8 GB Ram intel uhd630 gfx (iirc) Arch Linux with heavily customized i3-gaps

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
      1•1 year ago

      I did. It misses (or missed?) most of the functionality I use with Openbox.

      • shading (rolling up) windows
      • “resistive” window borders
      • menu icons
      • pipe menus
      • freely bindable key-and-mouse combinations for window movement (including all buttons and including all 5 wheel directions/clicks)
      • customizeable decorations (no minimize/maximize buttons, for example, size, mouse interactions, etc.)
      • and some other minor issues.

      Especially the menu stuff makes me not wanting to use it. Since my Openbox menu uses icons for 100% of the entries and 95% of the menus come from pipe menus this is an absolute deal breaker.