Why You Should Not Be Afraid of Wayland, Pipewire and Gnome

Do not be afraid of Gnome, Wayland and Pipewire. These are the next generation of display servers, desktop environments and sound server that will be in Linux for the next few years.

Recently, I just switched my desktop environment to Gnome, Pipewire and Wayland via RisiOS. A Fedora 38 based distribution of Linux.

I been experimenting on with it for almost a week from the time I install it. It has been rock solid ever since.

I get to experience what Gnome 44 has to offer and all of my applications works in Wayland. Except for the screen capture software like SimpleScreenRecorder, Kazam, RecordMyDesktop, Vokoscreen. It does not support Wayland. But I have some screen capture software that does supports Wayland. Like EasyScreenCast, Kooha and Gnome Screen Capture.

And Pipewire works pretty well on my audio. It makes doing audio things much easier in Linux. I can plugin my turntable to my Laptop and play all my vinyl records and using Whisper to enable monitor for my input. Or switch inputs and outputs using QWPGraph.

Overall Wayland, Pipewire and Gnome desktop turns out to be one of the best combination of setup I did on my Linux Laptop. It really works for me.

So do not be afraid of Wayland, Pipewire and Gnome. Use it as if it is the future of Linux. Because one of these days X.org and PulseAudio will not be supported and we all will be shifting to Wayland and Pipewire instead.