Wayland and X11 are protocols, they are essentially just documentation. You need an implementation to be able to actually run programs on it, called a compositor. People tend to think of X11 as a single software because historically Xorg became dominant as the main implementation of the specification, so most of us have only ever used Xorg (but Xorg is not the only implementation of X11, there are many others). Wayland, as a newer protocol, hasn’t undergone such consolidation yet, there are many competing compositors implementing the protocol in their own way. GNOME has one such compositor, and KDE has their own, and there are many others. So it’s not about “Desktop Environments” all running over the same compositor, as it was on Linux in the Xorg days. Instead, the Wayland features you get are the ones your choice of compositor has already implemented, and can vary between different compositors.
So it’s less the Gnome doesn’t support VRR and more that “the wayland compatible desktop compositor that the Gnome project prefers doesn’t support VRR”?
Which is basically the same thing. Gnome uses Mutter, which is a part of the Gnome project as a whole.
Wayland changes things a fair bit compared to Xorg. There’s no standard Wayland server, each DE implements their own to suit their needs. Some libraries have emerged to help with that, it’s relatively easy to get going with wlroots which Sway/Hyprland/Gamescope uses. But Gnome makes their own and so does KDE so it can integrate more deeply with the DE.
There’s non-desktop compositors too, like for VR for example where you can manage your windows in 3D space all around you. That’s where Wayland shines, that gets super complicated to do in Xorg but a breeze with Wayland.
As far as I know, no one has ever gotten their account banned store-wide.
Like you mentioned, sometimes games with anti-cheats like Apex Legends or Overwatch will falsely ban linux users (from that specific game - not the whole Battle.net or EA store), but they usually undo those bans within a week or so for most users.
I was hit with one of the Apex bans, and it was overturned within a week or two. But there were a few people who I am pretty convinced did not cheat and are still banned, so maybe be cautious with that particular game.
I've never had any issues on Hyprland. The Steam Deck also uses Wayland (Gamescope). Not saying there can't be cases where unique bugs happen on Wayland, and maybe there's something else I don't know about, but Steam Wayland support seems to be fine as far as I can tell.
Does Steam even have any support for Wayland? There's maybe one dialogue window that runs under native Wayland, and the rest of the UI uses XWayland. I've been running the few games I played under XWayland and they work just fine on KDE Plasma / Manjaro.
A few games that could support it with the flick of a switch (or quite literally a checkbox) such as Rust and Fortnite do not, but EAC itself does support Linux and quite well. VRChat uses EAC and it runs just fine (thousands of hours with it working), just as one example.
At this point, if a game doesn’t work on Linux with EAC, it is 100% pure unadulterated laziness on the company’s part. They can literally enable it and say “We officially don’t support Linux, don’t ask us for help if you play on it.”
While I don’t play Apex I have put way too much time into Battlebit Remastered which also uses EAC and I’ve never had an issue being kicked.
Other games I’ve tried with EAC are Ironsight, Killing Floor 2 and Elden Ring, and they all worked fine. Rust being the only one I had to give up after switching (tho that’s probably a good thing for my mental health)
After every patch I can play 1 match. Then I get kicked because some random file has a version mismatch. From there on the game will not let me back into the lobby screen because of version mismatches.
I’ve tried deleting the proton prefix, reinstalls on various ssds and hdds, different proton versions…
And it’s definitely an Apex issue since a ton of other EAC games work just fine for me.
The only thing that actually works reliably is booting to Windows and playing it from there for me.
Everything worked the first time except… Steam! Unable to launch it, black window which restarted in a loop.
What package exactly did you install and from which source?
the keyboard preset is in Qwerty even though I have an azerty keyboard
If you set the layout correctly during installation of the system / in your system settings then that's not really Linux fault.
I was able to notice a bug in a rather disturbing shadow/light and in the drops of water on a windshield which appeared and disappeared in a strange way.
Very well explained.
So here I am, I hate Windows, but it runs my games better than Linux and I’m really lost. I’ve just discovered Nobara, I would have loved to try it but I’m tired of starting the first 3 hours of cyberpunk again and I’m convinced that I’ll have some graphical bugs with it.
Why restart? Back up your home folder to a different drive, install the OS and copypasta the home folder back into the new system. This is literally easier than under Windows because everything non system related is in the home folder. Games, save & config files, everything.
There’s also Ameliorated which helps debloat hour Windows and 9/10 times get a better experience using it. There’s different playbooks which help optimise to the experience you like (eg. gaming). Could give it a try :)
It’s not 100% private because Windows, but it certainly improves it a LOT. But do mind that it comes with a security vulnerability as Windows defender is also removed and you’re left on your own. So no shady downloads, unknown pdfs, or whatever harmful there may be. 3rd party ‘anti-virus’ software is also explained on their FAQ page, which you should check out before continuing :)
Nobara is specifically customized for gaming, created by Glorious Eggroll (from Proton-GE) himself, with specific packages which he tells you not to install as flatpak so you don’t lose the optimizations he made.
I’ve personally switched over to Arch because steamos is arch based. I know it will probably be just as smooth for other distros but I’ve wanted to switch to arch before the steam deck anyways. I’m happy with everybody just embracing linux and the distros they feel comfortable in.
It could be mostly steamdeck users, but for me arch is the only distro that works well. You know what you install which makes troubleshooting easy, and it’s documented very well.
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