I gave up last week. Vlc and celluloid were crashing under gnome. They worked under swaywm but couldn't find a way to install a redshift wayland clone that worked. There are a whole lot of things that still simply 'don't work' especially if you venture outside of gnome and kde.

VLC doesn’t support wayland. It’s an X application.

take a look at https://arewewaylandyet.com/ to find some alternative app for your X-only software

Also make sure to alias vlc to your new alternative, i keep forgetting i don’t have vlc installed anymore...

I tired using celluloid which is a gnome wrapper around mpv, but it stopped working. Running it on the command line, I'm prompted with an exception and admonished that wayland support is 'experimental' and known to be unstable.

I use celluloid on Wayland. Never crashed. It'd be helpful to know what distro you are using. Fedora has the best Wayland experience of them all, others not so much.

You wouldn't have a nice Wayland experience on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for example.

>You wouldn't have a nice Wayland experience on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for example.

That's a bingo! :^(

Looking to move to an arch flavor, but need to figure out how to backup ~ 500GB of stuff I don't want to lose.

If you were using GNOME, then it has a redshift clone built in.

Yes, gnome has night light, but unfortunately vlc crashes under wayland and it takes the entire OS with it. I haven't discovered any smoking guns, but I assume it's some sort of OOM issue, which is funny on a system with 8GB of ram.

Switching to gnome on xorg, it's rock solid stable.

I will wait to switch back to wayland when I'm forced to a few years down the line. I'm done bleeding on the edge.

> vlc crashes under wayland and it takes the entire OS with it. I haven't discovered any smoking guns, but I assume it's some sort of OOM issue

As someone already pointed out, VLC doesn't support wayland natively, so it's running under Xwayland. Ironically the issue could very well be X related.