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Comment by 0x1ch

6 hours ago

I've been on and off linux desktops since the advent of Wayland. Unsure of the actual issues people run into at this point outside of very niche workflows or applications, to which, there are X11 fallbacks for.

Also, by "commercial linux vendors", you do realize Wayland is directly supported (afaik, correct me if wrong) by the largest commercial linux contributors, Red Hat, Canoncial. They're not simply 'vendors'.

> Unsure of the actual issues people run into at this point outside of very niche workflows or applications, to which, there are X11 fallbacks for.

I don't know if others have experienced this but the biggest bug I see in Wayland right now is sometimes on an external monitor after waking the computer, a full-screen electron window will crash the display (ie the display disconnects).

I can usually fix this by switching to another desktop and then logging out and logging back in.

Such a strange bug because it only affects my external monitor and only affects electron apps (I notice it with VSCode the most but that's just cause I have it running virtually 24/7)

If anyone has encountered this issue and figured out a solution i am all ears.

  • This is probably worth reporting. I don't think I've ever heard or ran into something like that before. Most issues I ran into during the early rollout of Wayland desktop environments was broken or missing functionality in existing apps.

  • Is it gnome or kde or what?

    That's like saying "the website doesn't work", without saying what browser you are using.