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    Is there something you lack in Wayland but have in xorg? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] angrymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    You are absolutely right, I use Wayland on KDE cause two different refresh rate monitores but duude, even on amd you have some hassles. It is ok if you change some env variables, not OK for the average Joe.

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I'm so confused why other people are having so much trouble, I use two computers with AMD GPUs and one with Intel and I haven't had any problems with wayland on Gnome, Plasma, Sway, or Hyprland in the past like two years. The only environment variable I ever changed was the one to make firefox use wayland before that was the default, but that wasn't at all required for the average user, it works fine under xwayland.

    [–] angrymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Things like, scrensharing, OBS (recently was patched and now it works), discord, spectacle (is a little unstable), screen locking (only one screen or none of them turn off) and some xwayland games/emulators won't work. All of this in a full amd setup with KDE.

    With one Novideo 1660s my KDE panel frozen every 30 minutes.

    If you only use linux for development or browsing you should find no problems.

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

    Weird, I use OBS, lock my screen, and play games all the time and have never had any problems on KDE. Maybe I'm just lucky with my GPU choices? I use an RX 570 on one computer and an RX 6650 XT on the other.

    [–] brian@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    haven't had discord or screen locking issues and I have plenty of monitors. haven't run into any game issues either, but I do preemptively run older stuff in gamescope which tends to avoid a lot of issues

    [–] angrymouse@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

    run older stuff in gamescope which tends to avoid a lot of issues

    This is a great advice, I'm having issues with alt tabbing with dota, I should try gamescope as well.

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Monitores

    Brazilian detected

    Also, I use two monitors with different refresh rates on Mint / Cinnamon / Xorg and it's more than fine. I think you only need Wayland for variable refresh rate. But two static refresh rates seem to work just fine on X.

    [–] angrymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Brazilian detected

    Damn, my camouflage didn't work.

    They are actually running in different refresh rates? The default is to cap the better monitor in the lower refresh rate. If I accept that it is fine to me as well. If I try to force different refresh rates on kwin , my games run with so much tearing, even with vsync on.

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

    I honestly wouldn't know. One is a 60 Hz TV and the other a 75 Hz office monitor. My son loves to play steam games on the monitor. The graphic configuration tool says the monitors are at that frequency and I can see other frequencies they could operate.

    I don't know how to check the actual refresh rate though.

    [–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

    But two static refresh rates seem to work just fine on X.

    No but if you can't tell they are both working at the same rate it must work well enough for you not to care.