A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment.

Going along with Fedora 40 looking to disable the GNOME X11 session support (and also making KDE Plasma 6 Wayland-only for Fedora), upstream GNOME is evaluating the prospect of disabling and then removing their X11 session support.

Some concerns were raised already how this could impact downstream desktops like Budgie and Pantheon that haven’t yet fully transitioned over to Wayland. In any event we’ll see where the discussions lead but it’s sure looking like 2024 will be the year that GNOME goes Wayland-only.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    578·
    1 year ago

    Well let’s hope that massively improves the Wayland experience then. I tried it last week and still had flickering screens, laggy windows, and crashing games. In the current state it would be unacceptable for me to switch

    • echo64@lemmy.world
      351·
      1 year ago

      depends if nvidia care about improving wayland, they don’t really have any reason to care today. Maybe if people start purchasing hardware from their competition enough.

      I’m having a perfect time on intel at least. Though I have no video game requirements.

      • gerryflap@feddit.nl
        111·
        1 year ago

        My problem is that I’m kinda tied to CUDA and thus Nvidia. If AMD’s ROCm would’ve been a bit better and supported on consumer GPUs I would’ve went for that.

        But having a non-NVIDIA card in order to use the latest GNOME doesn’t seem reasonable to me. Then again, maybe the pressure will finally make NVIDIA get their shit together

        • cerement@slrpnk.net
          161·
          1 year ago

          considering how willing they were to throw vendors like EVGA under the bus, trying to figure out what pressure Nvidia listens too might be a challenge in of of itself …

        • echo64@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          I’m gonna assume you can use Cuda, without driving the display with nvidia. You just need a motherboard with onboard Intel

          • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            63·
            1 year ago

            That seems like a rather extreme work-around for Wayland proponent delusions. Buying an nvidia card and then not using it for graphics at all.

          • gerryflap@feddit.nl
            02·
            1 year ago

            That’s gonna make gaming a lot harder though. And I’m on an AMD CPU. I’m not sure whether it has an internal GPU even. My point is that they’ll lose a lot of users by forcing Wayland. I’m not dure Nvidia will care for such pressure

    • Mereo@lemmy.ca
      20·
      1 year ago

      I had the same problems until I switched to an AMD card. Since then it’s been smooth sailing in Wayland.

    • jokro@feddit.de
      5·
      1 year ago

      I had those issues with an old nvdia driver version, bun on the recent ones it works better.