I used to distro hop frequently before Linux was almost supported by many things. I preferred Fedora derivatives but Ubuntu pushed those out in the dev space. I switched to Arch because it was funny then a few years ago switched to EndeavorOS because it was easy. I currently can’t get things like OBS to work smoothly (when my display sleeps, screen captures have to be deleted and rebuilt), sharing my screen with basically any tool is a nightmare, and I’m just kinda tired of compiling fixes and deeply configuring. I’m spoiled by the work experience on a Mac where all of this stuff works and it’s POSIX compliant.
What I’d like out of the box
- Solid support of OBS or other streaming tools
- Easy screensharing
- Decent audio experience
- Packages not Snaps (if I have to cave on this one I have to cave)
Linux is Linux so the rest of what I do will work almost anywhere. Godot, Rust, and a browser are basically all I need.
Personal issues I’ve had and other questions I’ve seen online. It’s not necessarily wayland itself, it might be how other programs treat screen sharing in it. In any case it’s worth a try if it’s an easy change.
Sorry to say, but no, it’s the most problem solution.
I won’t even get into the details, but it’s like a heart replacement, and there are many issues by simple swapping packages from the default in this sense. Everything is shipped expecting whatever distro defaults, and just swapping things out doesn’t work that easily.
It sounds like you probably had issues with specific apps that didn’t properly support Wayland, and you couldn’t tell the difference between the entire composition environment, and a single app having issues because it only support X11.
Some distros come with both pre-installed so you don’t really need to swap out anything. If it’s not pre-installed, I don’t know, you might be right and it won’t fix anything.
I’ve had issues with specific apps that just don’t support it, others that require installing more packages and others that I didn’t care enough to look into. That’s a significant enough number to take it into account when trying things.