Post #488885

2026-03-01 22:14 UTC

Sorry to say, but no, it’s the most problem solution. I won’t even get into the details, but it’s like a heart replacement, and there are many issues by simple swapping packages from the default in this sense. Everything is shipped expecting whatever distro defaults, and just swapping things out doesn’t work that easily. It sounds like you probably had issues with specific apps that didn’t properly support Wayland, and you couldn’t tell the difference between the entire composition environment, and a single app having issues because it only support X11.

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@LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2026-03-01 22:46

Some distros come with both pre-installed so you don’t really need to swap out anything. If it’s not pre-installed, I don’t know, you might be right and it won’t fix anything. I’ve had issues with specific apps that just don’t support it, others that require installing more packages and others that I didn’t care enough to look into. That’s a significant enough number to take it into account when trying things.

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