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I started working on Flyaway with the intention of becoming familiar with Wayland, its protocols and extensions, and the wlroots library. Instead, I ended up genuinely liking all three.

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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Anyone have a nice "Will Wayland work and how to switch" guide? I haven't used it ever, but the time will come soon enough.

[–] YonatanAvhar@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Marxine@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I love those "are we (thing) yet" sites. They're amazingly helpful.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Now that is useful. I see that I might indeed wait a little longer.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

On my system, Wayland KDE works perfectly while KDE X11 is buggy (Manjaro).

[–] Nuuskis@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I went from decade with dwm into Alpine + Sway and had zero issues. Actually the opposite, all the screen tearing and multi screen issues are now gone.

[–] igalmarino@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now, Alpine. I've gone over the Wiki and don't need to switch any time soon. It is more to have something bookmarked for later.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What feature is holding you back?