The Wayland ecosystem had a phenomenal year from much better NVIDIA proprietary driver support, Firefox ending out the year shipping with Wayland support enabled by default, KDE Plasma 6.0 will default to Wayland following many improvements on the KDE side, the Wine Wayland driver upstreamed in its initial form, XWayland continuing to be enhanced, and a lot of other software from desktop environments to apps continuing to embrace Wayland.
Michael Larabel at Phoronix
This train ain’t stopping. Dare I say 2024 will be the year of Wayland on the desktop?
Thom Holwerda,
After years of waiting I honestly can’t tell if 2024 will be the year wayland finally gets it right without regressions. Maybe, but maybe not. I genuinely hope the wayland’s remaining feature regressions are addressed in 2024. As a pragmatist, that’s all I care about.
according to phoronix wayland is still slower in 3d. but the gap has been narrowing
I think that happened a few years ago. Fedora defaulted to Wayland in Fedora 25, which was released in 2016. I switched full time in 2019, and the weird FF bugs were worked out by 2020.
Chromium supporting Wayland might be a good future goal, or Google shipping the first ChromeOS version with Wayland as default, now that they’ve committed to dropping their proprietary display server.
The recent barrage of Wayland content here on OSAlert prompted me to review the status because I assumed I wasn’t up to date on the current status, fool me once ……………………..!
I’ll check again in 2025, the year of Wayland!