On Thu, 2021-09-02 at 14:16 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Greetings > > My long time mentor in things Linux (described himself as a fossil) is no > longer with us. (He suggested that I strongly consider using Devuan which > I now have on one system.) > He was of the opinion that Wayland - - - whatever its exact function, was > really not worth running. > Yet it is being touted as the X11 replacement and is now supposedly > capable of handling both multi-gpu and multi-monitor setups. > > What say you? > > TIA
I keep looking into Wayland every 6 months or so. It isn't ready yet. There are a bunch of native, minimalist window managers for it and apparently the X compatibility layer works quite well, but all the slightly heavier WMs/DEs didn't convince me. Gnome is just a default no from me, KDE works but keeps crashing, XFCE isn't ported yet and the few small native DEs are still very early. The most usable WM seems to be Sway, but that is heavily inspired by i3 which I personally don't like. What I can say on the positive side though is that it works just fine on my Systemd-free Gentoo installation (haven't tried it on Devuan yet) and seems very smooth. On AMD at least. Nvidia has really, really dragged its feet on supporting the necessary extensions. Somewhat related: Pipewire is already much, much better than Pulseaudio and seems ready for daily use. If you have a need for something that provides functionality above pure ALSA give it a go.
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