Yes, Wayland has a simpler architecture and so on, but if I need to share screen, some applications only work on X11.

For example, Discord. And zoom from time to time breaks on Wayland, but not in X11.

Does it happen to you?

#Linux #Wayland #X11

@aleixmorgadas Blaming Wayland for Discord's lousy Electron stack feels a bit weird tbh.

@bitpirate Electron stack is a mess but adopted. Zoom doesn't seem based on Electron tho.

I don't recall now all the incompatibilities, but there are still some others, along with screen sharing issues.

I'm expecting Wayland to catch up at some point. It is preventing me to use it 100% of time for that. When I need to do some screen sharing due to some communication tools, then it is when I need to switch to X11.

@aleixmorgadas @bitpirate discord is using a very old version of electron and that's why "it's not there yet". I suggest you use discord from the web or try third party clients such as https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop
GitHub - Vencord/Vesktop: Vesktop is a custom Discord App aiming to give you better performance and improve linux support

Vesktop is a custom Discord App aiming to give you better performance and improve linux support - Vencord/Vesktop

GitHub

@noaccOS @bitpirate Thank you! That is awesome 😄

It works flawlessly on Wayland

@aleixmorgadas @bitpirate At least in this instance Wayland has catched up.
Protocols for screen share are less controversial than other new protocols that bring features where that X11 them had or
where X11 wasn't preventing applications from reading data of other applications where there was no need for a X11 protocol.