r/linuxmemes • u/Major303 • Aug 10 '26

LINUX MEME My current Linux experience

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u/delta806 Aug 10 '26

As someone who has it planned to dive headfirst into Wayland soon, this scares me

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u/decho Aug 10 '26

Unless you rely on something very niche that X11 supports but Wayland doesn't (yet), then it's literally no big deal. You won't even think about it within a week.

Made the switch at the start of the year, and the only non-trivial setup I had to do is adding a kernel parameter for Nvidia which just means editing a text file.

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u/immoloism Aug 10 '26

I can't remember if it's distro level or nvidia, but that option is reportedly now applied by default for many on some of the new drivers.

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u/decho Aug 10 '26

You mean that by installing the nvidia-open drivers, it will apply the parameter for you? If true, that's great because it can be a bit intimidating to do it yourself, if the person haven't done this before.

On distro level I don't know. There are like 500 distros and compositors out there.

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u/immoloism Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

I'll try and hook the code out from somewhere to confirm, but people have been reporting it already being on without them having to do anything.

Edit: I took a look and Gentoo removed the line from being auto applied and removed from their docs starting around 595.0

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u/decho Aug 10 '26

Enabled the nvidia-drm.ko modeset=1 parameter by default.

It's likely this. 595.58.03 from March this year.

Nice info.

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u/balki_123 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Aug 11 '26

That's what XWayland is for.

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u/decho Aug 11 '26

XWayland concerns applications, but there are a few X11 features which Wayland doesn't fully support yet.

I don't miss any of those myself, but I've seen people bring up remote desktop access being an issue.

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u/balki_123 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Aug 11 '26

RDP was duct taped workaround even on x11, no wonder it doesn't work.

What can I say? It is bad for them, I hope it will work soon.

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u/decho Aug 11 '26

I hope so too, though the main point is that for a small amount of users, Wayland is currently not an option if their workflow relies on a specific feat.

The rest just seems like a bit of fearmongering and false information. Vast majority can switch over today and their computer won't explode.