[joelthelion]

I've been using Gnome on Wayland as my primary desktop on Arch and Fedora for several months if not a year. It's a marked improvement over Gnome/Xorg, and most of the issues have now been resolved.

You might need to find new ways to accomplish a few tasks, though. But I can attest it works.

Edit: fix desktop/compositor confusion

[jhasse]

Did it crash yet? That has been the blocker for me so far, since on wayland GNOME Shell crashes will bring down the whole session.

[fmoralesc]

gnome-shell in 3.26 can be reloaded, so in case it crashes it shouldn't take down the session anymore, I think.

[jhasse]

Do you have a source? The bug report about it is still open AFAIK.

[fmoralesc]

Well, myself. I am using the wayland session and just restarted the shell with <Alt-f2>r.

EDIT: Well, I just checked and it turns out I am not running the wayland session! I will have to investigate why...

[runeks]

> It's a marked improvement over Gnome/Xorg […]

How so?

[gkya]

Just after the upgrade I can say that everything looks crisper. This might be because I just recompiled Emacs for this week (I follow master), or because default fonts changed, or because Gnome 3.24 -> 3.26, or because Wayland, or some of all of these; but there is a noticeable change. And Gnome is way more snappier. I'm really pleased after first reboot.

[joelthelion]

No tearing is a big one.

[majewsky]

Small but important nitpick: Wayland is not a desktop, it's a set of protocols for GUI compositing. "Plasma on Wayland" or "Gnome on Wayland" or Sway or Weston is.