Was using a Hyper-V VM with Debian Sid. Installed Steam but UI wasn’t displaying and the login window wasn’t responding. On GNOME I also had the cursor leave sprites of itself. Planning on using Xorg with 125% fractional scaling. Any advice?

  • This is so true.

    Annecdote: I gave my MIL a little ARM computer for web browsing (it’s all she does). I’d had X (and herbstluftwm - it literally just runs Firefox in full screen mode on login, kiosk-like) installed on it, and she’d been using it for about a year; it’s been fine. Recently I switched it to Wayland and Sway, thinking it might be smoother. Uh uh. Logins went from a few seconds to several minutes before anything came up, and it exhibited this behavior where the screen would jump right a few pixels and then back every couple of minutes. I haven’t had the best luck with Wayland myself, but I haven’t seen anything this janky in a long time.

    “YMMV” is a pretty good summary of Wayland at the moment.