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How to test Wayland from a live USB? (Ubuntu/Kubuntu) (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48956797

Does anyone know how to test a Wayland session with a Kubuntu 24.04 live USB? I'm testing it out now, but I see that it's using an X11 session. I'd like to test how the laptop would work under Wayland instead, before installing Kubuntu or Ubuntu for good.

Some web search lead to this post, which gives quite involved instructions but it's from 2020. Hopefully it's more straightforward now?

Cheers!

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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

iirc you still need to set some sddm/gdm settings and logout

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Indeed that worked, thank you!. It was good to try; turns out Wayland doesn't support my touch/pen-screen, so I'll keep X11.

[–] kiri@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As I know, Kubuntu 25.04 (not LTS) uses Wayland only, so you can try it there. If you need exactly 24.04 then idk.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah that's bad. I eventually managed to try out Wayland in the 24.04 live session, and it doesn't support my touch/pen-screen: ""Unsupported platform detected. Currently only X11 is supported". So I hope future versions will still offer X11 where Wayland can't work yet. Otherwise the situation becomes like for Windows, that a new OS version means you have to update hardware too...