Trying wayland by default again
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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...
  • SirLotsaLocks
    7·
    4 years ago

    This is exciting. A lot of major distros are heading towards wayland by default which makes it more important to develop for. I used wayland for a bit a few months ago and it was so smooth and snappy. I cannot wait to go back.

    • theonlyklit
      4·
      4 years ago

      Agreed, i’ve been using it via Fedora 33 as a daily work driver. Its been buttery smooth for me.

      • SirLotsaLocks
        1·
        4 years ago

        have you come across any major problems with it? I would switch but I am not good at fixing things on my own and prefer for things to “just work” so I stick with x11 atm. If it can do things like screen share and stuff like that then I might switch over.

  • joojmachihne
    1·
    4 years ago

    Hope I can one day see proper NVIDIA support for it. Wayland seems like such a promising project.