In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software

I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don’t believe that they’re a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland’s technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don’t want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don’t want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn’t think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

  • @[email protected]
    5•1 year ago

    I couldn’t get OBS working. X11 works for it, so I keep using it. Hopefully eventually, I won’t need to, but I don’t have the time to spend hours researching and troubleshooting. I tried, failed, but x11 Just Works TM. I’m part of the problem, I guess.

    • @orangeboats
      2•1 year ago

      FYI you need pipewire, xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-$COMPOSITOR for OBS to work on Wayland. No configuration needed other than installing the packages and relogging in.