General information:
- I’m using EndeavourOS, with KDE Plasma. I am very happy with my setup as it is, but since Wayland is “the future” I’m thinking of getting a move on.
- It came default with just X11, no Wayland. I know KDE supports Wayland but have no idea how to switch.
- I play a lot of games, I read somewhere that Wayland has worse gaming performance. I don’t know if true or not, though.
- … I have an AMD GPU. I’m not enough of a masochist to try and use Linux with NVidia.
- … BUT I’ve been thinking of upgrading to an Intel Arc GPU in the nearish future.
Let me know if there is any, more important, specific info I should be giving.
EDIT: I have changed. … I felt no difference, but I suppose that is the whole point. Thank you to everyone who answered.
Usually it’s as easy as installing the
plasma-wayland-sessionpackage, then selecting “Plasma (wayland)” in the login screen.For games in my experience, it works some of the times. Also, steam doesn’t seem to inhibit sleep in wayland, so if you’re watching a long cut-scene or using a controller, you might get interrupted suddenly. And don’t even bother with Steam big picture mode.
And don’t even bother with Steam big picture mode.
why?, it worked fine
I’ve had issues where the overlay just doesn’t work.
You just change your session from X11 to Wayland and that’s it. Everything should work the same, just with smoother animations and an overall snappier desktop.
Intel are doing great improvements with their drivers, at least i always hear about it in phoronix, and it’s opensource, so no problem like nvidia, but they’re a bit new, so only testing i guess
you can try, see how it feels, it’s not like you are changing distros, you can just select in SDDM, and if it give problems just log out and select x11
Install Wayland and KDE support then switch on the login screen
pacman -Sy plasma-wayland-session
You can test Wayland support in x11 with
startplasma-wayland dolphin
