Wayland just gives me a black screen. I've tried for hours messing with driver and system settings but nothing works. I'll consider Wayland when I actually have the option to consider it.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
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What's always funny to me when someome brings up missing features of Wayland is how, apparently, the missing features of X11 are getting pushed under the table or somehow also blamed on Wayland in some twisted way. Like, holy shit, compare the display settings of KDE on a modern display between Wayland and X11. My laptop didn't even show a third of all options anymore.
Sure, it will be nice once Wayland can do a few things (better), the current development push surely helps. But it's not like X11 can do everything either.
Yeah. "Feature parity or get out", like dude we're long past feature parity.
Wayland supports so much more stuff than X11 does, and what does X11 have that Wayland doesn't? X forwarding? Just use a modern remote desktop solution, all X forwarding was doing in "modern" times (read: the 21st century) was streaming pixels anyway, just less efficiently than modern remote desktop.
I still use X forwarding.
It works just fine using xWayland, and X forwarding has always been so janky there is no chance to notice any difference caused from using xWayland instead of native.
It will surely take many years and well established wayland native remote tunneling before anyone thinks of ditching xWayland.
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Multi window apps are still broken, and the wayland protocol guys have been dragging it for more than two years
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x11 when you try to use 2 monitors that don't have the exact same atomic composition:
I lol'ed
I think it took me 2 years to get six monitors on two GPUs working consistently under X11. Yes, I'm that fucking stubborn.
Wayland worked right from the start.
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It's fucking weird people have such strong opinions about issues like X11 and systemd. They're meant to be working in the background away from the user, and that's exactly how I treat them. Actually systemd still provides some functions a user might have to interact with manually, for X11 I'm just baffled.
When I take an uber, I don't care whether the car has an automatic or manual transmission.
Gnome forced me onto Wayland a few weeks ago and I've been dealing with issues ever since. Some issues even affecting the most basic level tasks like typing text, imagine dealing with that in 2025. Following your analogy, if the Uber with the fancy new transmission came to a halt every kilometre, you'd care too.
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I used to use some features that only worked on x11. Slowly I found alternatives or workarounds on wayland. So I understand the sentiment. Imagine you book an uber but it's electric so they say you can't book a ride that's too long
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In my eyes, it's the same deal as conservatives coping with the changing world. There is a version where they just shut up and let the rest of the tech landscape improve while they happily stick to the X they know (X.org or even XLibre).
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IMO Wayland surpassed X11 a long time ago... As it doesn't shit in the pants with tearing on video play or touchscreens with multi-screen.
Is it perfect? No. But X11 isn't perfect either.
X11 is heavily outdated and vulnerable, but it features one thing Wayland doesn't: it works with everything.
So, if Wayland checks your points, go Wayland. If something breaks - X11 is there to back you up.
Not even always true. For me, Wayland is the only thing that runs decently on my Frankenstein monster of a setup, while X11 makes everything run insanely slow. I think everyone should try both at some point
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Meanwhile I'm here on Wayland because it does things that x11 doesn't.
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I kinda like being able to watch a video on one screen and not having to make sure that there are no animations going on anywhere else or the video framerate drops like it's 1996.
Weirdly this happens on my work laptop (x11) but not any other Linux machine I've used including all the Wayland ones. I assume it's due to video drivers.
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Wayland is the one thing that fixed a whole shit-ton of my problems overnight and now I find out nobody wants to use it under any circumstances.
Β―\(γ)/Β― Alrighty then
Plenty use it without knowing as it is what the Steam Deck uses in gaming mode.
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Look, I primarily use e-waste for my computing. I'll use whatever display server I want. You'll pull X11 out of my cold, dead hands.
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The only thing keeping me off of Wayland is the fact that OBS window capture forces me to manually reselect every window every time.
Weird, it doesnβt make me do that, I have it installed with the flatpak.
Same. Might be an issue with the legacy install method, the Flatpak OBS works like a charm.
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My kid (13) surprised me the other day and said he wanted to try Linux. He has seen me forever using it and got scared about W10 getting hacked or something so thought of trying it out.
I handed over to him my Fedora 43 (KDE plasma) install USB drive and once installed the problems began.
The monitor couldn't be set to native resolution, and Steam didn't want to run. Turns out that there is no wayland compatibility with the Radeon Polaris RX480. What a bummer, that card is perfectly fine for what he does on his PC.
We tried with the cinnamon version and that is working fine. He even has roblox running.
Tl;Dr: Wayland isn't compatible with older hardware that most casual windows users are mostly going to be using.
Correcto X11 just works for me, never had any issues, there is literally zero benefit for me swapping over.
Every time I am booted into a Wayland session, something doesn't feel, look or work right which causes me pain and suffering through my OCD which i don't have.
I'm planning on trying hyprland soon though because it can look very pretty so if I swap over to that then yes I'll be a wayland pleb, but in that case there's a real reason to me swapping.. not just for zero benefit.
I like XFCE because is simple and my PC is a toaster with an NVIDIA card so..whenever I have XFCE on Wayland I'll switch to it.
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My blocker is the Window Shade button on Plasma.
It worked fine in Wayland under Plasma 5, but somewhere early in the 6 transition support was removed.
For anyone not aware it minimizes the window to its own titlebar. I find it faster and more intuitive than minimizing to a dock, and it's easier to keep track of things when you can actually read the whole titlebar.
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Give me server-side decorations, or give me death!
(won't add the whole of GTK as a dependency, so that my input handling can be handed over to whatever is GTK doing.)
Iβve gotta be honest, the desktop environment situation on Linux does not impress me.
Iβm on Cosmic which is decent, but there are all sorts of silly oversights in KDE and gnome, and windows have weird mixes of styles and toolbar display modes.
Is great that Linux is modular, but seriously gtk vs QT vs whatever else needs a heavy duty cleanup.
I agree, however Windows and macOS are even worse IMO. Everything is just totally inconsistent (Windows) and the window management features are very barebones (both). Using either one feels like going back 10 years or more.
The CSD trend might have some upsides but i find it mainly just makes apps ugly and any added functionality is almost always redundant.
Kvantum really helps make Plasma more consistent, not sure if there is a similar addon for GNOME
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Apps should only use cad if they are really using the space like browsers with their tab bar. That gnome forces every app to provide them is really stupid.
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I've tried a few distros recently (Bazzite, Nobara, Debian...), all with Plasma+Wayland, and none of them work with my Wacom Intuos. Nobara with Gnome works fine (that's what I'm using in the meantime), albeit with a limited feature set: can't remap tablet area, can't use or remap the tablet buttons.
So, I've narrowed it down to something inbetween Plasma and Wayland. That's all I know for now
I use the tablet as a pointing device -using a mouse hurts my wrist after roughly 20mn (old injury). So it really is an accessibility issue...
I have said this a few times before, apologies, but I'm hammering it because it's not notorious enough.
libinput is a major component in that area. you should ask around here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput also have a look at the existing open/closed issues
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