Hacker News Reader

Comment by INTPenis | Hacker News Reader

I started using Fedora as my desktop just as they defaulted to wayland and honestly the transition has barely been noticed by me.

The biggest issue a few years ago was screen sharing not working in video metting apps like Teams. But I can't even remember when that was anymore.

So the team has really done well from my perspective.

View on HN

Teams is unusually bad on Linux the last time I used it. I had it refuse to even work on GNOME Xorg.

Interesting, I've never had any issues specific to Linux (MATE Xorg though, not GNOME or Wayland) when using teams. over the past two years.

The software is pretty bad overall, like very slow and clumsy UX, but it's not any better on Windows…

I use it all the time, from within the web browser, both Edge and Chrome, Teams works great, including screen sharing, on X. I haven't tried Wayland to compare. I'm on Kubuntu.

That's how I use teams, as an edge pwa.

I just wish there was a better way to switch the Bluetooth codec. It's annoying I have to manually change it before a call.

It's been very stable for a while now, I actually installed it as an app in Chromium and run it directly from sways dmenu somehow. It just works™

Of course it's still atrocious when it comes to copying content in chat messages but I think that's on all platforms.

On Fedora, I had to compile Emacs to use GTK rendering.

VSCode needed some custom launch parameters with the insiders version:

  code-insiders --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform=wayland --disable-features=WaylandFractionalScaleV1

Factorio runs really well with:

  SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=yes ~/Games/factorio/bin/x64/factorio

So some slight annoyances, but nothing really unusual for anyone who's used Linux desktops for a long time.

Oh yeah of course the last time I logged out and into Xorg was for a game. But again, that was years ago now.

vscodium flatpak fonts are already fine; IME vscodium works with font scaling fine out of the box. There's a vscode flatpak issue: "Feature: add optional Wayland support" https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code/issues/471#...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39625917#39637408

Reply on news.ycombinator.com