Is it just me or is wayland nowhere near primetime?
I did a switchover to systemd/wayland some time ago and it seemed to
solve some problems I had.
The problem is it also came with so many more issues than it fixed:
1. Logins don't work reliably. I use KDE/SDDM and when logging in it
appears to start on a new VT and sometime it doesn't start. Or it will
start the new VT and fail to switch to it, leaving a text console and a
blinking cursor. This didn't happen when using X11.
2. Sometimes video hardware acceleration just doesn't work. Now I do
have a discrete nVidia card with the proprietary driver, but I switched
to nouveau and it didn't work either. Again, not an issue in X11.
I have a nVidia RTX 3070 Ti.
3. I sleep/resume a lot, wayland seems to be quite buggy on resume. As
in, the other three issues listed here are far more likely to occur
after a sleep/resume, but they do happen even after rebooting and being
on the PC most of the day.
4. This is the big one, the panel in KDE hangs intermittently. The clock
will freeze and the entire panel is unresponsive (but weirdly enough,
KDE doesn't realize it's not responding.) I've tried killing and
restarting the process and that doesn't always fix it either as it
becomes disconnected with any open processes and it's not possible to
resolve. Either have to logout or reboot.
I've switched back to X11 for now and have been using it for over a
week. I managed to figure out how to set up multimonitor for now (both
on the KDE desktop and in SDDM) and I haven't had any of these issues.
For the record, I typically use the computer a few times a day during
the week and sleep/resume, and longer on weekends.
After much googling and experimenting, I can't seem to make these issues
go away... which got me wondering if someone else has experienced any of
these.
I have done hardware tests (load testing, RAM tests, etc) - all are clear.
-Dan
