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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Been on Wayland since 2016 and to this day my only issues (apart from when I had an Nvidia card for a few months, that is...) was video sharing in Discord/steam in-home streaming, both of which still don't work right.

Other than that, it's been great. Multi-monitor works way better, far fewer bugs, my desktop feels a lot more fluid and smooth.

On laptops, Wayland+Gnome gestures are exceptional, putting even Apple's gestures to shame. I cannot stress enough how good of a job Gnome+Wayland does with trackpad gestures. It makes other gesture systems, especially ones under X11, feel like they were cobbled together by a Fallout 3 modder.

Overall Wayland has been great for me. I just wish Discord would fix their shitty app.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

If you just want video sharing with audio in discord, vesktop implements that. https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop