The sad state of screen sharing on desktop Linux
Spoiler alert: the author of the article is using Wayland. <i>Lots</i> of things aren&#x27;t working on Wayland yet. (I&#x27;m also being pretty handwavy here about Wayland. Wayland &quot;the protocol&quot; isn&#x27;t a piece of software you use -- lots of problems are not specific to Wayland, but to a particular compositor).<p>Screen sharing works OK on Linux under X11. I can&#x27;t remember the last time that was a problem. I was definitely doing it on a daily basis back when KDE was somewhere at a 3.x release, so before 2008. At least single-monitor setups work fine, I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;ve tried it on multi-monitor setups in a very long time. When I did (that was so long ago my two monitors were bulky CRTs) it was OK but who knows, maybe it got broken in the meantime.<p>I mean yes, once in a blue moon I run into a system that has a weird glitch, but that&#x27;s just as true with Windows and TeamViewer. Every once in a while you run into a machine that just won&#x27;t budge and you need to ask Google. That&#x27;s true on any OS.<p>(Before you tell me how you&#x27;ve had no problem with Wayland on your Thinkpad running Fedora 87 or Arch, yes, I get that. Making it work on everyone&#x27;s laptop, and getting it to do what everyone needs, is a real hurdle in software development, and Wayland isn&#x27;t even halfway there when it comes to this particular hurdle).