Hey Community,

Since I just read a post about the X11 vs. Wayland situation I’m questioning if I should stay on X11, or switch to Wayland. Regarding this decision, I’m asking you for your opinions plus please answer me a few questions. I will put further information about my systems at the bottom.

  • What are the advantages of Wayland? What are the disadvantages?
  • I do mostly music production, programming, browsing, etc, but occasionally I’m back into gaming (on the desktop). How’s performance there? Anything that might break?
  • what would be the best way to migrate?
  • why have/haven’t you made the switch?

Desktop: Ryzen 3100, 16 Gig Ram, Rx 570 Arch Linux with KDE 144 hz Freesync Monitor and 60hz shitty monitor

laptop: Thinkpad L540 (iirc), i3 4100, 8 GB Ram intel uhd630 gfx (iirc) Arch Linux with heavily customized i3-gaps

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    Discord’s video capture works fine for me. Some other applications (Zoom, for one) still haven’t bothered fixing their portals, but Discord has had working video capture for ages. It’s just lacking audio, but I don’t think that works on X11 either.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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        1 year ago

        Video capture works in either as far as I know. I remember Zoom being weird and only implementing the screenshot API rather than the video capture API but aside from that I’m pretty sure all applications can do video capture these days.

        Audio capture doesn’t work on Discord, though, but that’s also the case for X11.

        You can sort of make it work if you use Pipewire or Jack in combination with a tool like QJackCtl and redirect the output of the window you’re capturing to Discord’s audio input.