Should Debian 10 default to Wayland?
Posted: 2019-05-10 13:53
I know that this is a trivial issue for most of Debian users, but one of the more prominent Debian developers, Jonathan Dowland, has questioned the current default DE for upcoming Debian Buster release:
https://jmtd.net/log/buster_wayland/
Currently GNOME defaults to Wayland, but he is requesting the session reverts back to Xorg, citing "various" problems and bugs.
To be honest, his two mentioned problems don't seem so fatal to me. For once, drag and drop issue is easily worked around and who leaves their root partition full all the time?
A bigger problem, and the only problem is lack of proper NVIDIA support on Wayland. Again, easily worked around, especially by Debian users.
For gaming, I have tested Valve's Proton on GNOME and it's running well using Xwayland. Age of Wonders III is running with playable FPS, even though native version is a bit faster on my AMD R5 330m. I had zero problems running Morrowind with OpenMW.
There is also a great benefit of leaving Wayland as default. There will finally be much more testing for all those bugs to be fixed. Debian maybe doesn't have Ubuntu's market-share, but it is still solid on desktop. I hope devs follow upstream's advice and leave GNOME Wayland as default.
What are your thoughts, should Debian 10 default to Wayland display server?
https://jmtd.net/log/buster_wayland/
Currently GNOME defaults to Wayland, but he is requesting the session reverts back to Xorg, citing "various" problems and bugs.
To be honest, his two mentioned problems don't seem so fatal to me. For once, drag and drop issue is easily worked around and who leaves their root partition full all the time?
A bigger problem, and the only problem is lack of proper NVIDIA support on Wayland. Again, easily worked around, especially by Debian users.
For gaming, I have tested Valve's Proton on GNOME and it's running well using Xwayland. Age of Wonders III is running with playable FPS, even though native version is a bit faster on my AMD R5 330m. I had zero problems running Morrowind with OpenMW.
There is also a great benefit of leaving Wayland as default. There will finally be much more testing for all those bugs to be fixed. Debian maybe doesn't have Ubuntu's market-share, but it is still solid on desktop. I hope devs follow upstream's advice and leave GNOME Wayland as default.
What are your thoughts, should Debian 10 default to Wayland display server?