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KDE 6 will enable wayland by default (as well as other news)

Posted by creesch
Tags: linux, open source, kde.6, announcements, source.pointieststick
https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/10/this-week-in-kde-wayland-by-default-de-framed-breeze-hdr-games-rectangle-screen-recording/

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Title
This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording
Authors
Nate
Published
Nov 11 2023
Word count
920 words

6 comments

  1. [2]
    creesch
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    Just some interesting news I came across. I currently don't use Linux on the desktop except for my old surface go tablet where currently Gnome in combination with Wayland works slightly better for...

    Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go Wayland by default! The three remaining showstoppers are in the process of being fixed and we expect them to be done soon–certainly before the final release of Plasma 6. So we wanted to make the change early to gather as much feedback as possible.

    Just some interesting news I came across. I currently don't use Linux on the desktop except for my old surface go tablet where currently Gnome in combination with Wayland works slightly better for touch related things. Which is a shame as over the years I have grown to like KDE quite a lot, I like the UI/UX choices they make much more and generally pick it as my window manager.

    The article I linked is a general news article from one of the main developers blog. They wrote a much more in dept article about KDE and Wayland back in September that is worth a read: https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/so-lets-talk-about-this-wayland-thing/

    6 votes
    1. imperator
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      I've been using Wayland with KDE for 2 years and it's been amazingly stable for me. Grabbed I have an AMD GPU.

      I've been using Wayland with KDE for 2 years and it's been amazingly stable for me. Grabbed I have an AMD GPU.

      5 votes
  2. [4]
    tanglisha
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    I mostly use Linux in docker these days, so haven't been paying much attention to the graphics. Lately I've come across several comments from folks about either turning off Wayland or switching to...

    I mostly use Linux in docker these days, so haven't been paying much attention to the graphics. Lately I've come across several comments from folks about either turning off Wayland or switching to kde because something didn't work well with Wayland. Is this something that's been improving?

    4 votes
    1. [2]
      creesch
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      Probably, maybe? The second blog post I linked actually goes into this I feel: https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/so-lets-talk-about-this-wayland-thing/

      Probably, maybe? The second blog post I linked actually goes into this I feel: https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/so-lets-talk-about-this-wayland-thing/

      6 votes
      1. tanglisha
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        I somehow managed to read the announcement and completely miss this link. Thank you! It does a great job of explaining pretty much everything.

        I somehow managed to read the announcement and completely miss this link. Thank you! It does a great job of explaining pretty much everything.

        1 vote
    2. vord
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      I know for myself, about 2 years ago KDE/Wayland was nearly unusable for me. But for the last 9 months, it's been fantastic. Virtually no problem that wasn't resolved quickly or was quite clearly...

      I know for myself, about 2 years ago KDE/Wayland was nearly unusable for me.

      But for the last 9 months, it's been fantastic. Virtually no problem that wasn't resolved quickly or was quite clearly outsize the ability of KDE to fix (see Zoom).

      4 votes