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I started working on Flyaway with the intention of becoming familiar with Wayland, its protocols and extensions, and the wlroots library. Instead, I ended up genuinely liking all three.

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[–] spunkie@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't be that good. I did a kde archinstall on a friends desktop just last week, 2070super with proprietary drivers, and wayland crashes on login. T_T

I've been using wayland for years but I'm running AMD.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yea it doesn't work on Nvidia very well

[–] Tami@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago

The linux desktop experience in current day is honestly incredible to use. as long as you keep team green as far away from your hardware as possible. Not worth the headache to deal with Nvidia in my personal experience

[–] chickenwing@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't have an opinion on this until I tried to disable right click on a ubuntu machine with Wayland. It needs an xmodmap style tool.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not a common thing people do tho

[–] chickenwing@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True but it's something that can easily be done in xorg because it has almost 20 years worth of tools created for it.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. But Wayland will get there too, it just takes time.

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but by that time people will be posting 'relationship ended with Wayland, (next thing) is my new best friend.'

[–] lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can Wayland tunnel through ssh?