Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareTornadoRex@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoAs someone who dabbles in Linux but is ultimately a regular people, what’s the advantage of this?
minus-squaretheshatterstone54@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoA unified, bug-free, performant and featureful display stack to ensure people can use things like Variable refresh rate, which, iirc, is an impossibility on X11.
minus-squareCraigeryTheKid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoWait, what? I’m on PopOS, with Nvidia GPU, and my “g-sync” VRR works fine.
minus-squaretheshatterstone54@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoPopOS uses GNOME which hopefully uses Wayland
minus-squareTornadoRex@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoThat’s pretty awesome. I imagine this would be a huge advantage with the growth of Linux gaming too
minus-squaretheshatterstone54@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoYeah, it could be and it will be
minus-squareBogasse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoI suppose the Steam Deck experience would be a bit worse if it wasn’t running on Wayland 👍
As someone who dabbles in Linux but is ultimately a regular people, what’s the advantage of this?
A unified, bug-free, performant and featureful display stack to ensure people can use things like Variable refresh rate, which, iirc, is an impossibility on X11.
Wait, what? I’m on PopOS, with Nvidia GPU, and my “g-sync” VRR works fine.
PopOS uses GNOME which hopefully uses Wayland
That’s pretty awesome. I imagine this would be a huge advantage with the growth of Linux gaming too
Yeah, it could be and it will be
I suppose the Steam Deck experience would be a bit worse if it wasn’t running on Wayland 👍