Additionally, the Steam Deck ships with Wayland by default. Hundreds of thousands of gamers are stress-testing it without any complaint that I'm aware of.

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tliltocatl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Games isn't exactly the best stress test for a windowing system. Most (if not all) run in full-screen mode and don't really use it much after the launch. And that's not what desktop computing is about. You want to run multiple programs, you want them to integrate with each other. But games don't need any of this.

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cwnyth 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just guessing, are we?

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1445kc7/citie...

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kingaillas 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That post is 3 years old, so basically around 1 year into the Steam Deck's release.

	▲	cwnyth 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And yet, Cities Skylines still (last tried: about 2 months ago) crashes for me when I try to load it in Wayland on Fedora, which has removed Xorg from its updates. Wayland has broken dozens of my Steam games.

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Ferret7446 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It ships with Wayland, but it does almost everything with X(wayland)

	▲	bigyabai 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wine 9.22+ has the native Wayland backend by default. Now Xwayland is barely needed.

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jauntywundrkind 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As someone who uses my steam deck as a workstation too, I really really wish this were fully true. The desktop is still X based, and that suuuccckkksss.

	▲	raron 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The next SteamOS release will use Wayland by default for desktop mode, too: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1675200/announcements/detai...
	▲	ThatMedicIsASpy 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I've had bazzite on mine for a year and wayland by default
	▲	bigyabai 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The desktop sure, but the primary handheld mode uses Gamescope which is a Wayland-based session.