I've been on wayland for 3y11m now. I have had four problems in that entire time:
My weird third party Synergy/Deskflow client needed additional setup and troubleshooting which is now well-logged and documented (by vee)
No screenshot tool worked very well on wayland, and by now several tools have caught up
Electron hardware acceleration sucks ass and crashes a lot, mostly caused by developers refusing to update the Electron Core in their crap ever
Streaming on Wayland is Not Good due to all the extra hoops to use "portals" to get window content. This is better now but still not great
That's it. Everything I used had wayland support, ran fine in XWayland, or got an almost instant wayland fork.
Now obviously YMMV, but I tend to consider myself pretty "If it doesn't work I roll back" brained about stuff like core interfacing.
@trysdyn That last one alone would be a showstopper for a lot of people in streaming circles alone, honestly. OBS is already fiddly enough to give non-technical people headaches when something breaks, doubly so on Linux. I would like for these things to be improved at least.
Do you know if they ever implemented absolute positioning for artist workloads?
@elfi That's why I mentioned it specifically yes. I would expect people planning to stream would look at that and use that information.
Who implemented absolute positioning of what?
@elfi Looks like no. The most promising WIP MR on the spec was closed after it was brigaded by a bunch of bad faith types and I don't see if a new one really got traction.
It mostly comes down to "The application is not allowed to make decisions" which we're finding is not a good assumption to make 100% of the time.