Wayland on KDE is still far from perfect. Why am I still using it then?

Manjaro 22.0 and Wayland

Earlier this month i wrote the usual article in which he talked about the evolution of Wayland in plasma. In the current state, in which there are many small details that need to be polished, he said that the choice should be between using something more polished or something under construction, but taking advantage of other strengths. When I wrote the article I wasn't sure if I was going to go back to X11 or if I was going to stay in Wayland, and after a while I have already made up my mind.

I stay in Wayland. The main motive is a combination of using the most modern and not having found any bug that makes my life impossible. There are some things that make me take more steps than expected, but for me, it would be no different than what I feel when using a desktop like GNOME: I do a few more clicks and that's it, but I get what I want. Also, there are a couple of other reasons that make me feel like a fish in water.

Gestures and helping by reporting information, my reasons for staying in Wayland

The touchpad gestures It's one of those things that, once you get used to it, it's hard to go back. For example, when I want to edit a screenshot that is on the desktop, I used to go to the bottom right edge, show the desktop, open it with GIMP, and start working with it. The problem with doing it that way is that all the windows go back to their position and I work on a desktop full of windows. Now what I do is move to the desktop on the right, and there I start editing, I look for an icon on the Internet if I need it... Another workspace (although its correct name is "desktop") that I get to by swiping with three fingers.

And then there is another reason which is to support or contribute to the development of KDE and Wayland. For a few versions of Plasma, I don't remember which one exactly because it's not one of the most important functions for the end user either. System Preferences has the "User Comments" section with which reports on the use of our system are sent. By default, the slider is on the left (nothing is shared), but it can be moved to the right to provide more information. If there's a serious bug, it's likely that a bug report will be created and automatically submitted to KDE, and this will help make things better for the future.

The most important thing: to be able to work

Now, everything in this life has to have a meaning, and for me it wouldn't have one if I couldn't work without closing or blocking every now and then. Since that doesn't happen, I like gestures, I don't stop doing anything and I can contribute with bug reports, I have switched to using Wayland by default. Also, I have the wildcard of logging into X11 if I need more reliability, though I hope I don't have to anymore. As for sharing this type of report, and although I know that the original meaning is not this, "sharing is caring".


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  1.   FRANCO said

    When using Wayland, I feel that the pointer feels more inaccurate than it already is on Linux in general.