This is very good. Not only because it illustrates the maturity of wayland, this is been done using pipewire. The last remaining pieces of the puzzle are finally being placed. A modern linux distro will give you on the desktop a good oomd, good video drivers, pipewire, wayland, GTK 4, GNOME 40, a modern kernel, compiler, dev-tools... and modern cross distro software through flatpak/snap/appimage. There are still things to improve and fix, but the desktop has never been so promising.
The sad thing: I've been hearing/saying basically this for decades.
What's up with the recent Flatpack/Snap fetish? Doesn't anybody just get their software into a distro anymore?
Edit: EFF's recommendation for certbot, their ACME/LetsEncrypt client, is to use snap on a freaking server. Why?
Be advised that there is still an issue in the QTWayland front that makes OBS in Wayland rather unpleasant in practice; https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-81504 (via https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4295)
Are there people on here who regularly scrape HN posts for data?
Because I'd love a list of user handles of people who-- before this day-- have written variations of, "Wayland-based systems have been totally ready for use for years now." And maybe a browser extension that greys out comments from those handles.
When I made the jul over to full time Linux last February,this is something iran into and was confused about. Wayland was the default on Ubuntu, and it worked great! Except for a lot of applications that just wouldn't load... After some reading, I moved to X, but I can't wait for the day Wayland is ready to go.
Will there ever be a good way to run things like dmenu on Wayland? I'm still a novice, but will all X programs need to be converted?
Support for Wayland is getting up there. Just five days ago the bounty to support Wayland in Barrier was funded [1]
[1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109#issuecomment...
Maybe a bit off topic but what is the status of wayland capture support anyway? Normally I used ffmpeg with x11 and that worked great. However due to the security model of wayland this doesn't seem nearly as easy to implement. I think they went with some kernel level grabbing support that needed root?
Nice. I suppose mounting the output as a virtual camera isn't supported yet?
maybe that will help microsoft teams to implement that functionality under linux.
Totally unrelated but: The day I can wireless screencast my Linux Laptop to my home television I will lite a candle.
If I'm reading this right they support gnome, kde, and wlroots compositors, by sharing the protocols meant for screen sharing. Also they don't support capturing xwayland clients.
Now all that is left is virtual audio output...
I think the original blog post from the developer is a better link: https://feaneron.com/2021/03/30/obs-studio-on-wayland/
Michael added zero extra information on top of that.