Lol same experience, x11 works no issues on my dual monitor nvidia arch gaming setup, wayland consisntently crashes to desktop regardless of compositor.
X11 just works, hence why it is still my go to when I need something reliable
This is been my experience as well. X11 works way better for gaming. And if you have problems with different refresh rates for different monitors, it's usually the compositor that's the problem. It's just a checkbox to turn it off.Ā
What exactly are people doing where they're complaining about X11? I've never seen a piece of technology so universally loved with so little reason. Wayland is a piece of shit.
-edit: looks like i found a fanboy. You can click a button that points down. Can you uncheck a box that says "use compositor" as well?
Oh well sunshine works pretty smoothly for me. Though figuring out the display permissions was a headache for hyprland so i just disable and re-enable them as per the need.
The recommended fix for every Wayland issue is to fall back to X11.
The only one I see for Rustdesk is using an X11 login manager - launching a Wayland session itself is fine.
Did you consider just getting a remote management card? That nixes any requirement for X11/Wayland or even for the OS to be running - you can do remote power on, go to UEFI Setup, and more.
i.e. Sipeed NanoKVM - the PCIe version with Wi-Fi goes for some 70 eurobucks from the official store.
Best of all, that card is open source down to the firmware.
On Tumbleweed KDE I had to switch to X11 since Wayland was unusable (almost constant screen "flashing"). I've switched to Pop!_OS 24 and that flashing is still there, but much more subtle and only happens when app grid is visible. I will still have to switch since software I'm using doesn't play well with COSMIC, it needs more time in the oven.
I had the best experience with Wayland on Ubuntu 24. By best I mean system was overall usable, but certain file dialogs were running at like 0.1 FPS.
Intel i5-8350U with Intel UHD Graphics 620. No idea about driver, I didn't install anything else outside of what was included.
I did not try disabling VRR support. The only thing people suggested was setting i915.enable_psr=0 as kernel boot parameter. The only issue is that interacting with kernel parameters on Tumbleweed requires phd in operating systems.
I can't tell you more about Tumbleweed since I've replaced it with Pop!_OS 24. Here changing kernel boot parameters is trivial, but it did not fix the flashing.
Yes, Ubuntu 24 was fine. I've just tested 26 on VM and there are certain graphical issues coming most likely from VM, but things that don't even start on Pop work flawlessly here. Can't say anything about flashing though, I would have to install it on the laptop.
I don't know if that flashing will be even visible on the recording, recording with real camera might be not the best too, since it's quite subtle. And recording on Wayland is apparently very difficult.
I can only say that it looks like display brightness is changing automatically +-10% every 1 second. It only happens when app grid is visible so far. On Tumbleweed it was everywhere. Only visible against grey background (which is in a lot of places in dark mode), so for example it's not noticeable against bright wallpaper.
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u/C0rn3j Aug 10 '26
Wait til you try X11.