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Do you have some examples for someone who has basically no idea about linux?
can't speak for OP but the only beef I have with wayland is discord. If i'm in voice comms it will ONLY work if I'm either in a game or my discord is focused. if I'm in my web browser or doing something else like in an IDE or terminal etc then voice doesn't work. It's annoying.
If anyone has a workaround for that I'd love to hear it. on x11 never had these issues but I can't use x11 as my primary machine is a hybrid nvidia and amd gpu laptop so no gaming on x11.
My family uses Discord heavily, and I've set up a number of different distros and window managers at different times, all using Wayland, and I have not seen this issue. I think that includes running in browsers using Xwayland, and using native Wayland - but I'm not 100% sure because I've been running browsers in native Wayland mode for a long time, while my family members usually use the Discord Electron app.
There might be some more specific issue on your system, like a pipewire misconfiguration? Do you use pipewire?
well it's been happening with me across multiple distros like Arch, CachyOS, NixOS, etc and it's always been the same. yes I'm using pipewire so I'm not exactly sure what it is.
Gonna chime in and add that I have also not had this issue, Nobara Linux here. My discord voice comms work great in browser, and the various other versions I have run. Hope you figure it out!
are you using push to talk? that's the only thing I can think of that's not working for me. because everyone is saying it works fine in wayland but again I've used both flatpaks and packaged versions across multiple distros and the push to talk outside of discord or a game never works for me.
The standard workaround seems to be "scream at the developer to rewrite their features around Wayland's limitations and stop bothering the Wayland developers asking for feature parity". You know... The same way Android handles updates.
Yes, the insane old ways are being phased out for a reason. Sorry that we don't keep the world in a heavily romanized version of 2003 forever.
Preach all you want. In a practical sense, X works for me and Wayland does not. No amount of yelling about security exploits that have not once been exploited in the wild even by the most resource rich state actors will change the fact that I can not maintain my daily productivity with Wayland, and I'm not going to accept being LESS productive to satisfy anyone's personal development crusade. That's the antithesis of how software, especially FOSS software, is supposed to work. Either Wayland will give me every single feature I need, or I will sit here with my old but functioning X installations until the day I die.
I'm using the Discord Flatpak on Fedora Kinoite (Wayland/KDE) and have no such issue.