brent 1) Compared to X11 what are Wayland's strengths, as you see it? Or do you notice no differences?
It feels snappier and I haven't noticed any Wayland specific issues. Also helps that Wayland is being actively developed while X11 is on life support and has trouble even filling their board.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Board-More-People-2023
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Board-2024-Needs-More
brent 2) What are Wayland's limitations, if any, that you've noticed compared from where you came from?
I haven't noticed any.
brent 3) Biggest love about it right now? Biggest gripe?
Wayland
π It works well for me. I don't really have any issues.
πΏ For nvidia users it is still a bit of shit show. But that is getting better and its nvidias fault they have sucked under Wayland for years. They dragged their feet for a decade and tried to go with EGLStreams instead of GBM which is what AMD and Intel were supporting. Now nvidia is supporting GBM, what a waste of time...
Plasma 6
π For my usage Plasma 5 was always miles ahead of Gnome / Budgie / Mate / XFCE and Plasma 6 is no different. Using other DE's either feels like being handcuffed or fighting the DE to make it work the way I want it.
For me Plasma 6 doesn't really offer me anything new that I care about over Plasma 5. I don't think there is anything they could add to make me care, DE updates are boring and so they should be. I want it to function the way I want, be snappy and stable and that has been my experience.
πΏ Dumb default changes. Hey lets have a floating panel by default... Why? Explain to me what benefit that gives to anyone?
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Yeah thought so. Just more change for the sake of change where they add blank space so it takes up more room while offering literally no benefit. Ooo so modern! I hate these stupid UI design decisions that happen in every project these days.
π Plasma being Plasma of course there is an option to turn that stupid shit off.
πΏ The fact that their breeze-dark
theme by definition is not dark, its light grey ffs.
π You can just add a new colour pallet to it so its actually dark.