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
Also no issues with to capture sound as well? For example, on Discord?
Discord doesn’t have sound sharing on Linux whether X11 or Wayland. They just haven’t built the functionality.
Oh okay, that’s good to know! I thought it was something with my setup.
If you’re interested in a hacky workaround: if you’re running Pipewire, you can send an application’s audio stream into the Discord microphone input (together with your voice or completely without it) through tools like qjackctl or any other tool that’ll work with Pipewire routing. Instead of using Discord’s native video streaming audio source, your system audio will be sent as if you’re talking on the video call.
It’s a bit messy (tends to get reset when applications close/relaunch and when audio devices get attached/detached) but it works. As a added bonus, you can get a wide range of filters and audio processing for your microphone input as well.