[kwlug-disc] Wayland vs Xorg

[Doug Moen]

Wayland is always deployed together with Pipewire for audio, and it's Pipewire that fixes your audio problems. My audio problems went away when I switched my laptop from Mint to Fedora.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026, at 11:12 AM, Chris Frey wrote:
> Your report mentioned a lot of audio issues.  Is Wayland that much
> in the loop for audio?  I thought that was a pulseaudio thing.
>
> Or is the distro just arranged differently and more effectively?
>
> Thanks,
> - Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 05:58:03PM -0800, Ron wrote:
>> 
>> I made the switch recently, and have some things to report.
>> 
>> 
>> It's noticeably faster - a pleasant surprise.
>> 
>> 
>> Screen sharing via Nextcloud works, expecting Jitsi et al to work too.
>> 
>> 
>> Audio issues resolved:
>> 
>> I use OS-level microphone muting instead of app muting (Jitsi, Nextcloud,
>> etc).
>> 
>> No longer are the hot-keys and mouse actions on widgets out of sync, leaving
>> me unsure if I'm muted or not. Works 100% of the time.
>> 
>> 
>> The audio quality *seems* distinctly better in Nextcloud meetings.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Finally, an extremely odd issue where WebRTC sounded terrible with crackling
>> and popping sounds *only when 3rd monitor* enabled is *gone*.
>> 
>> That took months to realize the sound was fixed when I disabled that monitor
>> - now I don't have to do that. (YouTube audio was never an issue, just
>> WebRTC.)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Final bonus: in YouTube, I will often add several / many videos to a
>> playlist. When sorting the playlist on Xorg, dragging up was impossible -
>> scrolling was too fast to find the right spot; it never worked.
>> 
>> I'd have to re-sort by dragging downwards only.
>> 
>> On Wayland, dragging thumbnails works perfectly in either direction.
>> 
>> Again, weird that these quirks are now resolved. I'd never have expected it;
>> I thought it was a Firefox / YouTube / me problem.
>> 
>> 
>> I don't think I'll switch back to Xorg, even though I miss Xscreensaver's
>> Matrix Rain.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'm running KDEneon FWIW.
>> 
>> 
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