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“The metrics also show that basically no one is testing or developing Plasma on X11 anymore. The platform was already, for all intents and purposes, abandoned by KDE contributors.”
There just isn’t the man power to keep supporting it
i know all the reasons that switching to wayland is imperative for the distros. i also know that it still has massive gaps in the implementation that are required of a working desktop, like accessibility. it’s been almost 20 years and yet here we are.
I haven’t used Plasma for any significant length of time since 5.27. Coincidentally, the first major version of Plasma where Wayland was actually daily drivable for me, previous versions would have at least one desktop crash a day.
But my experience on Gnome Wayland has always been good. At least, better than X11, even on NVIDIA before the Wayland compatibility was “good”. Don’t remember exactly dates or version umbers, but it was shortly after it got hardware accelerated Xwayland and before NVIDIA added GBM support. And when I switched to AMD, it only got smoother and more stable.
And recently have been trying out labwc/wlroots and it’s been a very stable experience too.
so if everyone in the world used kde, “only” the usa would be on x11.
meanwhile i still get random blackouts, frame rate desyncs, and sleep mode crashes when running wayland.
you’re right, they shouldn’t support imperial measurements
I think I’m on Wayland and it’s been fine?
happy for you.
Are you on plasma 6.6?
Also “The metrics also show that basically no one is testing or developing Plasma on X11 anymore. The platform was already, for all intents and purposes, abandoned by KDE contributors.” There just isn’t the man power to keep supporting it
i know all the reasons that switching to wayland is imperative for the distros. i also know that it still has massive gaps in the implementation that are required of a working desktop, like accessibility. it’s been almost 20 years and yet here we are.
Interesting, what hardware do you run?
I haven’t used Plasma for any significant length of time since 5.27. Coincidentally, the first major version of Plasma where Wayland was actually daily drivable for me, previous versions would have at least one desktop crash a day.
But my experience on Gnome Wayland has always been good. At least, better than X11, even on NVIDIA before the Wayland compatibility was “good”. Don’t remember exactly dates or version umbers, but it was shortly after it got hardware accelerated Xwayland and before NVIDIA added GBM support. And when I switched to AMD, it only got smoother and more stable.
And recently have been trying out labwc/wlroots and it’s been a very stable experience too.
i mean it’s better now, used to not be able to show the greeter. when i set this machine up i had to change the session through the tty.
Not to mention still absolute crap support from commercial software.
Looking at you,
VMwareBroadcomOmnissa.