KDE Plasma switched to Wayland by default sometime last year, and so far the main issue I run into is that a few screen recording tools I like stopped working. (Mostly simplescreenrecorder, which seems to be entirely unmaintained at this point.) Other than some initial instability with accelerated rendering on my GPU, which was quickly addressed, it kinda just works. I mostly don't notice.

Actually, GPU acceleration was why I initially switched. For whatever reason, this GPU (Radeon VII) crashes regularly under X11 nearly every time I open a new window, but is perfectly stable under wayland. Really frustrating! So, I had some encouragement, and I was waiting for plasma-wayland to stabilize enough to try it properly. I still have the X11 environment installed as a fallback, just in case, but I haven't needed to actually use it for months.

Minor pain points so far mostly include mouse acceleration curves being different and screen capture being slightly more annoying. Most programs do this OS-level popup and then so many follow that up with their own rectangle select tool after I already did that. I had some issues with sdl2-compat as well, but I'm not sure that was strictly wayland's fault, and it cleared up on its own after a round of updates. (I develop an SDL2 game that needs pretty low latency audio sync to run smoothly)

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mystifyingpoi 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Mostly simplescreenrecorder, which seems to be entirely unmaintained at this point

I use it extensively, it's easy to use, UI is compact but clear, works perfectly all the time. I honestly don't care that it is unmaintained at this point.

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yjftsjthsd-h 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> KDE Plasma switched to Wayland by default sometime last year, and so far the main issue I run into is that a few screen recording tools I like stopped working. (Mostly simplescreenrecorder, which seems to be entirely unmaintained at this point.) Other than some initial instability with accelerated rendering on my GPU, which was quickly addressed, it kinda just works. I mostly don't notice.

FWIW, I have a KDE Wayland box and OBS works for screen recording. Slightly more complex than simplescreenrecorder, but not bad.

	▲	zeta0134 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've been using Kooha, but it's painful in a few ways, not least of which having aggressive compression that can't be disabled. SSR was nice because of the reduced time between "decide to record" to "draw a rectangle, done." OBS works, but is very clunky and cumbersome to reconfigure. At some point I'll get irritated enough to seek out more alternatives and give them a whirl. Such is fate :)

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bjoli 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I am still sad that shading windows stopped working with Wayland.