Can I start using Wayland in 2026?

Post by tristan957 » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #39

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> The problems you have with one of them might not appear in another. Because both have their own portal implementation/compositor with their own issues and service spec implementations. KDE has xdg-desktop-portal-kde, and GNOME has xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. On top of that each (still) has their own display server; KDE has KWin, and GNOME has Mutter. > The reference compositor, Weston, is not really usable as a daily…

The fact that we need the entire xdg-desktop-portal stack for screen sharing on browsers is a major annoyance. We now have a standardised extension for screencasting and screencopy (formerly it was not standard, but had been around for years), but browsers only support the Flatpak stack, which has a lot of moving parts and IPC. Doing out-of-band IPC for this is kind of pointless when the client and the server already…

Post by adastra22 » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 5:29 PM UTC

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How do I run a GUI application over ssh? This is what’s keeping me from switching.

waypipe

Post by antisol » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 5:55 AM UTC

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I seem to remember reading in an old paper (1990s?) that the asynchronous nature of the connection between the X server and the window manager results in essentially unfixable protocol-level races.

I covered that in the X-Windows Disaster chapter of the Unix Haters handbook, and many HN posts, and other articles. So it's quite disappointing and underwhelming that Wayland failed to learn or apply any of these lessons. All this stuff was widely discussed long before Wayland was designed in reaction to X11, without considering any alternatives than Windows and Mac. https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disas…

Post by loyalcinnamon » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 6:26 AM UTC

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #13

Can anyone recommend an autoclicker they actively use on Wayland? I've been using ydotool but the daemon service is janky (fails to startup/shutdown frequently, also had issues where half my inputs don't work while it's running)

Post by jcelerier » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 4:49 AM UTC

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> Windows and Mac Os, for all their faults, are unquestionably ready to use in 2026. LOL I installed a new windows 11 yesterday on a fairly powerful machine, everything lags so much on a brand new install it's unreal. Explorer takes ~2-3 seconds to be useable. Any app that opens in the blink of an eye under Linux on the same machine takes seconds to start. Start menu lags. It's just surrealistic. People who say these…

I am not sure how people get all these issues. I installed fresh windows recently, and I don't see noticable any slowdowns. Linux is faster in some places, maybe. But still with many issues like some applications not being drawn properly or just some applications not available (nice GUI for monitor control over ddc)