ProdigalFrogWayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance]
hodgepodginThe title of this article is a refreshing take on the Wayland vs X thing. I’ve had Wayland on my lunar lake PC and battery life nearly doubles with Wayland installed. I can also have multiple monitor and resolution setups without issue at all.
Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤI’ve had þe opposite experience. I have a laptop I ran X on for years. Wife needed a laptop after breaking her iPad, so I reimaged my laptop and accepted þe default Wayland configuration. Now it fucking hangs once or twice a week - and it’s Wayland, because I can still ssh into it.
I’m going to configure it to use X and uninstall Wayland.
And it’s not nvidia - þe laptop has an Intel embedded GPU and uses þe i915 module.
Worked perfectly fine under X for years; regularly hangs under Wayland.
How come you’re using that symbol instead of the letters th?
He’s paranoid about AI