I am thinking about installing Sway on one of my laptops and reducing my usage of apps that require X or Xwayland. Are there any noticeable bugs or drawbacks you have noticed when migrating completely to Wayland?

I use secureblue on my laptop, which removes XWayland. No issues if you stick to modern Linux apps especially written in GTK or Qt. You may need to do an occasional configuration. This Arch Wiki page outlines what you’ll find yourself doing. In practice the most common one for me has been Electron …

I ran Fedora with Sway a few years ago and for my usecase (CS Student) it was absolutely fine. Guess it should be even better nowadays.

[image] starkle: I use secureblue on my laptop, which removes XWayland. No issues if you stick to modern Linux apps especially written in GTK or Qt. I haven’t installed electron apps in a while thankfully. I honestly can’t think of any apps not written in GTK or Qt on my computer right now. …

Brave browser crashes very frequently with Wayland. Here is one example: wayland crash when drag & drop text · Issue #37777 · brave/brave-browser · GitHub

I presume this is just an issue with Brave and not Chromium?

I think I experienced that last year like those commenters. It was a Chromium issue, no longer present. I’m using Brave on Wayland right now; have been for almost 2 years. Crashes have been almost nonexistent. There are a handful of bugs but nothing that makes the browser unusable lately.

I used OBS for screen recording project showcases which worked fine. Never really had to share my screen through some video conferencing tool or use zoom at my uni since we were doing scrum meetings etc. in person and had a self hosted BigBlueButton instance for video conferences.

[image] anon99163603: Brave browser crashes very frequently with Wayland. I use it with Wayland only and it does not crash “very frequently” on Arch. The drag&drop bug was bad, but aside from that it works reasonably well. [image] KevPham: I presume this is just an issue with Brave and n…

I use the niri Wayland compositor, which doesn’t have built-in Xwayland support. With the relevant flags and environment variables, my apps work fine. I use KeePassXC, which doesn’t support Auto-Type under Wayland yet, but is being worked on . Almost all my logins are in the browser, so I just use th…

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baby_bat April 9, 2025, 11:22am 11

I’m using wayland on endeavour os with an nvidia 2060 and i’ve only run into a couple issues: Lapce absolutely bugging out and the ui randomly zoomed in so far i couldn’t access any of the ui settings to see wtf was going on, and some spicetify themes look kinda janky, like the catppuccin and rose pine theme colors don’t apply evenly across the app but the transparent animated galaxy stars theme looks normal. Aside from that it’s been surprisingly smooth sailing

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