Idle power on my laptop.
KDE Wayland: 10 watts
KDE X11: 6 wattsIt was this way when I checked years ago. Still this way as of a few weeks ago.
I had the opposite for whatever reason
Can you measure herbstluftwm + X11?
How are you measuring electricity use? powertop?
It had to happen eventually. Seems reasonable time to make the moce. It’ll be beneficial for all Linux users, and probably a huge relief for Gnome devs to be be able to focus purely on wayland.
It just will suck a bit for those on rolling release distros who still experience major issues with Wayland, particularly when its not Gnome or Wayland projects that need to make a fox - looking at you Nvidia.
I wouldn’t be surprised if other big DEs, such as KDE, start making firmer plans for dropping X11. I’m one of the 30% of KDE users still using X11 - for me it was Nvidia issues, and I do remain anxious about being reliant on drivers from a notoriously bad manufacturer. Having said the drivers have improved massively over the past 18-24 months for me at least, and maybe everyone moving over to Wayland is what’s needed to force Nvidia to act.
If this forces wayland into accepting global hotkeys or an easier/decent way of adding global hotkeys for selected programs, I’ll be happy, because that’s what made me switch back to windows (have a macro-keyboard, had to use a Windows program to upload the desired keys to it only to find out I have to focus obs to use the hotkeys).
At home, I like that this is happening, but at work X11 is still needed for xrdp. I have tried gnome-remote-desktop, but it isn’t on par with it. I could not get it to work reliably on Debian 13.
Maybe, with the next stable release it will be ready and the X11-drop will be a non-issue.
Our Linux people use nomachine. It costs money, but if it’s for work, they should pay for it.
I can’t comment on how well it works since I don’t use it personally, but I don’t hear grousing.
No machine is faster and more stable. There are open source implementations too.
