Wayland in 2021

The author uses Pipewire with WebRTC in Chrome, very cool.

Pipewire is showing up all over the place. I've been reading a little about it, but I finally got a comfortable setup of jackd and pulseaudio and am worried it might interfere with my stable setup.

Am I being paranoid?

I've replaced pulse with pipewire and that has been seamless. The experience is generally determined by how well the distro supports moving from one to the other rather than any maturity issues with pipewire.

I've retained jackd instead of using pipewire's implementation because I don't think the pipewire version supports transport control or timecode.

The short version is "it depends". Essentially, each separate Wayland compositor needs to add support for the nvidia driver (or the driver needs to support more standardized APIs).

Gnome and KDE support Wayland on nvidia hardware (though it's a bit rough around the edges). Wlroots (and therefore Sway) doesn't because they don't want to have a separate code-path for one driver which doesn't want to support standards and because the APIs the driver does support wouldn't work well with the code model of wlroots.

Still waiting for KWin to support adaptive sync and then I'll be switching to the Wayland session.

Does ibus work seamlessly in Wayland yet? As a person who regularly needs to input French, Chinese, and Japanese, besides English, I tried Wayland in Kubuntu 20.04 and a non-working ibus was a complete showstopper for me.