A while ago, the developers of the emulator PCSX2, which allows you to play PlayStation 2 titles on other computers, complained a lot about the way Wayland worked. There was such dissatisfaction that They even disabled support by default. Although they didn't like the protocol, they said that KDE did a decent job of managing it, but they weren't so magnanimous with GNOME. Now, some 15 months later, they see the situation differently, and there is good news.
So what They have published on Mastodon — they seem to ignore X, like many others, for political reasons — in a toot in which they claim to have found a way to make things work well on Linux + WaylandThe secret or the solution has been obtained thanks to Qt 6.9, and they have not mentioned anything about GNOME, neither for good nor for bad. They only assure that they are on the right track.
PCSX2 and Wayland coming in the coming months
In the translated toot we can read «Some of the project members are considering Qt 6.9 as a way to finally get to #Wayland working with PCSX2 on #Linux. We will continue testing, but so far we haven't found any issues. The final release of Qt 6.9 is on March 18th. We hope to see Wayland support in the coming months. #emulation #retrogames»
They haven't given an exact date for the official return of Wayland to PCSX2, but they have given a starting point: March 18th. That will be the date on which the Qt 6.9 stable release, and support for the increasingly popular protocol is coming from then.
PCSX2 is the best emulator we can use to play PlayStation 2 titles on computers, and even on Android, although in this case in an unofficial version. The support for Wayland will avoid us having to change sessions and is one more step towards the standardization of a protocol that all Linux is moving towards.