Hi, probably topic was drilled not once
But i would like to know how to properly switch from x11 to wayland, and do gaming on it
Anyone tried that ?
I have never done any switching and i would like to try, but don't want to break system if i try doing it from scratch googling around
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Install the package plasma-wayland-session and then you will be able to choose wayland or X11 from the login screen.
Word of caution: some widgets may cause issues with running wayland, Virtual Desktop Bar is one, so if you are having issues, might check/disable them.
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And that's all?
I thought that this process might be more difficult
Will i be able to freely switch between x11 and wayland?
Yes, from the login screen
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Have anyone played on wayland and amd, is gaming stable? How is behaves for older games?
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Seems like in some cases wayland is still lacking much, but for most of games performed little better than x11, wondering how it will behave on games which im playing, gonna make some tests tomorrow. Thank you for now, ill be back with some summary
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'plasma-wayland-session-5.27.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' z mirror.juniorjpdj.pl : The requested URL returned error: 404
found wayland-1.22.0-1 installed
do i need to remove default wayland package from system?
found some tutorial how to setup wayland on arch
does all of these steps are needed, or just the package like Rodney suggested?
No. I have Wayland package installed. Have you tried to switch over to Wayland yet?
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No, because there is a problem with package you proposed, cannot install it
Are you using plasma or another DE?
Plasma kde, its garuda dragonized kde, or at least i think it uses plasma
Strange, you must be having a conflict with one of the packages. Well, follow the Arch wiki guide you posted and go from there.
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im using wayland on garuda sway.. works amazing
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Try updating your system first.
garuda-update
Then install the new package.
sudo pacman -S plasma-wayland-session
If it still isn’t working, paste the input and output of the command into the thread so we can see what is happening. Also your garuda-inxi output is missing. 
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Failed units:
After garuda-update i was able to install that wayland package, it's very strange i have updated system like two days ago, and ir couldn't find package, does that package might be updated in last two days? that's why it couldn't find without garuda-update?
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all games works fine?
Hello there, well 2 days is actually something significant on a rolling release Distro like Garuda. Depending on the upstream of course, but keep in mind to do your updates in short intervalls and especially infront of bigger changes like your Wayland journey.
ATB
Bruce 
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Okay, ill be updating more often, first time on rolling distro
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anything that worked for me on dragonized x11 works even better on sway/wayland