KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)

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Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

In other words if you have a nvidia card you wont be using kde plasma. I installed kde neon at the house and plasma shell would core five or six times a day. I had to switch back to X11 just to get a stable machine. I really need to ditch it and go back to a more stable distro.

[-] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 9 points 6 days ago

I've been using Plasma on Wayland with an RTX 3070ti for a couple years without any issue (excluding the one program I mentioned in another comment here)

[-] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Running arch Linux KDE on Wayland with a 4090. Not a single issue graphically in the last year.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

While Nvidia has made it trickier to play with Linux in general, it usually does not require more than a tinker to fix

I have multiple machines running on Nvidia and AMD hardware with Wayland for years

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Its some combination of plasma and wayland. I run wayland on a few machines here and there and they are okay. The last bug I encountered with wayland was getting a game emulator working for someone in window mode. No one who responded wanted to do anything other than blame the program for not working with wayland. None of that helps solve a problem. So I solved it by switching to X11 and the program worked okay in window mode.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Its some combination of plasma and wayland

That could be but it's not universal to all machines running anything NVidia+Plasma+Wayland as you made it sound in your original post. That is the clarification I was trying to make.

Not sure if you tried, but you can also bridge the gap with XWayland

I run the omnissa client (Horizon client from VMWare) on my daily driver on Wayland even though it's not supported. The client complains every day but works flawlessly

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I'm running a 2080ti and was able to switch to Wayland once plasma 6 was released. Prior to that it was completely unusable for me. Since then I had one issue earlier this year where multi monitor detection would hard lock my computer if I changed inputs on the monitor but didn't update display settings first.