I took Plasma’s Wayland session for a spin a few months back but it had too many small annoyances for me to daily drive so I switched back to X11. However, now I started noticing horrible screen tearing in Flatpak applications and lo and behold, as soon as I switched to Wayland they disappeared. It’s really frustrating because most of not all of the little annoyances persist, I had to look up how to run Yakuake under X11 so it wouldn’t just appear in the middle of my screen for example, but I’d rather deal with them than with screen tearing so I guess this is my life now.
I just wanted to get out my frustrations and also find out if anyone else has had problems. It seems to me Wayland is far from ready for prime time on Plasma.
I don’t have much experience with Plasma, but I have been using Wayland (sway) exclusively for over a year. I had a lot of issues in the beginning, but I have been able to find Wayland native solutions for everything and these days I really don’t even think about it.
I’ve been using Wayland as my daily driver for almost 2 years now and it has been perfectly fine. The only issue for me is the Nitrokey app refuses to copy TOTP keys to my clipboard and I have to switch to X11 for that, but that’s an application-specific issue.
