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Should I switch to Wayland?

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Hey Community,

Since I just read a post about the X11 vs. Wayland situation I’m questioning if I should stay on X11, or switch to Wayland. Regarding this decision, I’m asking you for your opinions plus please answer me a few questions. I will put further information about my systems at the bottom.

  • What are the advantages of Wayland? What are the disadvantages?
  • I do mostly music production, programming, browsing, etc, but occasionally I’m back into gaming (on the desktop). How’s performance there? Anything that might break?
  • what would be the best way to migrate?
  • why have/haven’t you made the switch?

Desktop: Ryzen 3100, 16 Gig Ram, Rx 570 Arch Linux with KDE 144 hz Freesync Monitor and 60hz shitty monitor

laptop: Thinkpad L540 (iirc), i3 4100, 8 GB Ram intel uhd630 gfx (iirc) Arch Linux with heavily customized i3-gaps

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biscuits@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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Also no issues with to capture sound as well? For example, on Discord?

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visor841@lemmy.world
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Discord doesn’t have sound sharing on Linux whether X11 or Wayland. They just haven’t built the functionality.

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biscuits@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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Oh okay, that’s good to know! I thought it was something with my setup.

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