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Is it possible to discard Xorg completely and get a pure wayland based gnome? Will there be any bugs (or potential problems you can think of) to that? Will it be stable enough for everyday use? I tend not to turn off my laptop, but just close the lid, so please take that into consideraion. And generally, is it a good choice to use wayland over Xorg in this stage of development for a noob like me in Xorg(Man it's so huge)? Or should I just stick with Xorg and use the default configurations?
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Hello!
Welcome to Arch tydlwav!
Information about gnome and wayland is in the arch gnome wiki here.
Regards
Martin
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Yup. I know that. I'm just not sure if it would be stable to use applications under wayland (i.e. gimp or pitivi or libreoffice) using xwayland or some other methods. I don't want to be the beta tester since I am going to write my application essays to colleges with my arch, and I want to make sure that such a migration from my old xfce and x11 to wayland and gnome3 would be stable. I know gnome3 by default is pretty stable, but I am worried that wayland is bleeding-edge and may cause inexplicable bugs. I hope you may provide some sources where I can look at or some information about wayland's development status.
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Wayland is not considered stable but useable. When it is stable, I imagine the shift from X11 to wayland would be default. Many apps won't be built for wayland and so a plugin (xwayland) will be used. My best guess is that wayland for mainstream is coming soon, but realistically will be a few more years before it can be called 'stable'. Everyone on wayland will have a different experience due to various use cases. Everyone using different apps etc.
What about wayland's development status are you looking for exactly?
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
There are links at that url for release dates, bugzilla, github, etc.
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Thanks. Then I'll stick to the X for now. I think I'll use wayland explicitly on my next laptop.
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