In the Ubuntu 17.10 cycle we tried wayland as the default session but we didn’t feel confident at the time it was ready yet for a LTS. Things improved since, some of the blockers we found back then got resolved (desktop sharing), and that’s where the upstream focus is going. We believe now is the right time to try again, it should give us enough time before the next LTS to get proper feedback and sort out issues. Since we decided to not upgrade our GNOME version this cycle it should also make t...
If you’re on Fedora (maybe other distributions too) you can still start a desktop session on X, so if something doesn’t work the fix is just a logout away.
IIRC Zoom screen sharing doesn’t work on Wayland, but open source apps mostly work.
If you’re on Fedora (maybe other distributions too) you can still start a desktop session on X, so if something doesn’t work the fix is just a logout away.
IIRC Zoom screen sharing doesn’t work on Wayland, but open source apps mostly work.