Was using a Hyper-V VM with Debian Sid. Installed Steam but UI wasn’t displaying and the login window wasn’t responding. On GNOME I also had the cursor leave sprites of itself. Planning on using Xorg with 125% fractional scaling. Any advice?

  • anonono@lemmy.world
    32·
    1 year ago

    just test it out.

    some setups will work fine with wayland and some will work better with xorg.

    there are of course ways solve those issues, but it’s easier to test both and use the one that works best for you.

    wayland is the future, but the present is whatever works best for you.

    • q47tx@lemmy.worldOPB
      129·
      1 year ago

      Wayland is the future yes, but it’s not ready yet. I will just try it out, see what works.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      This is so true.

      Annecdote: I gave my MIL a little ARM computer for web browsing (it’s all she does). I’d had X (and herbstluftwm - it literally just runs Firefox in full screen mode on login, kiosk-like) installed on it, and she’d been using it for about a year; it’s been fine. Recently I switched it to Wayland and Sway, thinking it might be smoother. Uh uh. Logins went from a few seconds to several minutes before anything came up, and it exhibited this behavior where the screen would jump right a few pixels and then back every couple of minutes. I haven’t had the best luck with Wayland myself, but I haven’t seen anything this janky in a long time.

      “YMMV” is a pretty good summary of Wayland at the moment.