Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has decided that Fedora 25 will indeed ship the Wayland display server by default in place of the X.Org Server...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-25-Wayland-Default

[Anti-Ultimate]

Unless there is support for NVIDIA GPUs, it's not ready.

Let's also ignore the fact that xwayland still has no pointer locking

[Azpegath]

Wow, gutsy move, and I commend them for it!

[Anvil]

i believe Webkit has problems in Waylands also . so i wouldnt suggest you use Epiphany Crap , wonder if there will be issues using Google Chrome in Wayland to? i wouldnt mind betting there will be

[edoantonioco]

for what I see optimus users wont want to use fedora https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project...ment-217419284

[anarki2]

You guys fail to realize all this means is that some users will have to make an additional click to select X instead of the default Wayland during install.

[lakerssuperman]

I like it. Someone needs to take the jump. Yes, the Nvidia driver situation with Wayland is poor right now, but I suspect people that plan to use Fedora with the Nvidia drivers already knows this limitation and how to install the drivers and use Xorg.

I'm using Wayland as default on my Anger God install on Intel hardware. No major issues. Chromium works very well and MPV has hardware accelerated decode of videos which is nice. This is with Gnome 3.22 so I imagine it will be even better come Gnome 3.24 in F25.

[89c51]

I'm using Wayland as default on my Anger God install on Intel hardware. No major issues. Chromium works very well and MPV has hardware accelerated decode of videos which is nice. This is with Gnome 3.22 so I imagine it will be even better come Gnome 3.24 in F25.

Chromium works out of the box?

Last time i heard there was some code pending to be merged/reviewed/whatever.

[SaucyJack]

Until NVIDIA decides to support Wayland, it's not ready.

Let's also ignore the fact that xwayland still has no pointer locking

There, fixed it for you.

[smitty3268]

Chromium works out of the box because xwayland will automatically load.

fedora also will detect Nvidia and skip Wayland entirely on those machines. Just like it already does for the login screen today.