Wayland all the way, 120 hz Freesync monitor with 60 hz second monitor works perfectly on KDE Plasma with AMD. No fussing about with X11 configs or worrying about if the compositor is active or not, it just works.
I’m not having any issue in XFCE on x11/xorg with a 164Hz main screen @2560x1400, and a 60Hz second screen set vertically @1080x1920. Just using the display manager config provided by XFCE.
Wayland is the future. X11’s future is dead. Unfortunately there are still some growing pains. Xwayland mostly works but I have issues with it sometimes.
Don’t bother choosing. Use whatever the distro gives you until you actually have a reason to switch
I use arch btw. My distro doesn’t give me anything. I was on x11. Wanted to experiment a bit and now I’m configuring hyprland. Going well for me so far
Wayland. No screen tearing and it doubled my battery life.
hmm interested in the battery life comment. is this a thing? if I could push an extra 20 minutes or so I’d switch
Yes please go with details
is this a thing?
Honestly, I have no clue. With DWM I had like 3-4 hrs at max and now I am using DWL for 6-8 hrs.
What is also noticeable, is that closing the lid puts the laptop actually into sleep. Because with DWM it continued using the battery as if it was actually used.
I am not advanced user enough to tell what exactly caused this.
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Wayland for better multimonitor support, scaling, and tear-free rendering.
If you don’t know install a distro and use what comes with it by default and only worry about digging into the plumbing if something doesn’t work for you.
Ideally you let your distro worry about plumbing.
I think Mint is nice if you don’t need bleeding edge stuff. You can use Cinnamon which runs x11 but will eventually support Wayland.
I’ve heard good things about suse which has a rolling release option and supports gnome and KDE under Wayland.
Arch of course is a thing if you don’t mind a manual transmission as it were.
Personally I might pick Mint to get started.
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Wayland just feels more polished and clean.
Wayland. It generally works a bit better at this point, and it will only continue improving while X11 falls behind. I occasionally need to switch back to X.org for some legacy screen-casting or remote desktop apps, but even the ones that support Linux as an afterthought are starting to add beta Wayland support.
Wayland. Touchscreen support and gestures. No scaling issues. Better smoothness.
And don’t forget Crash-Resilient Wayland Compositing that keep applications alive even tho the “compositor” crash, so it does restart without any data loss and the lockscreen protocol, because on xorg if the lockscreen crash then you view the desktop and you have the device unlocked!
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Another vote for your answer. I just can’t be bothered to troubleshoot Wayland on Void if X11 just works already for my purposes.
Wayland da god
Wayland, especially with a laptop and/or a multi-monitor setup. It has a proper touchpad support with 1:1 gestures and setting different scaling factors for multiple monitors with different refresh rates is a breeze.
Currently, you should use X11 unless you have a good reason to use Wayland, such as using multiple monitors with different refresh rates.
There are still some issues with Wayland, but once they are worked out, then Wayland will be the better choice.
I think that time has passed. Many distros default to wayland now.
Use Wayland unless you have issues.
