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Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article)
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Been using Wayland since 3'ish years ago and my desktop experience has been really smooth -- no crashes, errors or anything of the sort. Everything "just werks" just as if I were on Xorg instead. Even on a completely obscure/zero linux support single board computer (Orange pi zero 3).
Graphics drivers are what matters. Your orange pi uses a mali GPU which is well supported by Linux (thanks ARM).
nVidia is just barely at the point where their most recent gpu drivers aren't terrible under Wayland. It's taken a while to get there.
GPUs with good open source drivers will fare fine.
Not as bad as you might think. The nouveau drivers have come a long way for maxwell. You should give it a shot if you haven't. But, unfortunately, if you are using anything new then nouveau sucks. It's a fun game where you get to wait until nvidia no longer wants to support your GPU and hope by that point that nouveau has progressed far enough that you won't be looking at noman's land.
I wasn't fully aware of NVK and where it's at. It's actually pretty exciting. I wouldn't mind dropping my current nvidia binary blob for fully open source drivers.
It still sucks for me at least. Doesnt respect scaling, or work after suspend, also discord streaming still broken for years. Also push to talk.
I've switched away from Xorg a few years ago because of its terrible multi monitor support and bad experiences with picom. Sway and now hyprland are imo a better tiling wm experience then their Xorg equivalent.