[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I just have no idea what life was like in the before time. All these poor souls

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I learned about that in a Trevor Moore song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxjrHPHypA

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

It's the I-4 eyesore.. of all things

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How anyone looks at this greasy used car salesman, and thinks his dumb Libertarian ideas and shrill whiny vibes are going to solve all their problems....

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They'll take it as far as the pollster wants ask. It's not really about what they believe or say, it's about unwavering support and owning the libs. They know they'll never be tested where they have to choose, so it's just a big game to them.

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

20-year boondoggle, you know.. The easy route...

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Things really move fast in AI, huh

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my experience using something like

export KWIN_X11_NO_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1

export KWIN_X11_REFRESH_RATE=144000

export KWIN_X11_FORCE_SOFTWARE_VSYNC=1

would basically work in allowing the 60hz lock released from the 144hz main display, but it would still introduce tearing, especially on the secondary 60hz display.

With Wayland it's an out of the box, tear free experience which is what I'm referring to.

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submitted 1 year ago by oldlamps@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've dipped my toes into the Wayland waters a few times of the past years, and I've always been immediately impressed and jealous of the buttery smooth performance, only to come crashing down to Earth with the severe showstoppers and bugs when using a NVIDIA based card.

Despite general instability of the environment, it was lacking support for VRR as well as GAMMA LUT for night mode, among some others.

I had heard that with the latest drivers there actually is GSYNC support now (at least for later model cards), which is something I think a lot of people still don't know based on what I read.

So I went about installing KDE Wayland to give it a try, and I'm really pleased to report the general desktop experience is getting a whole lot better, like almost ready for prime time good!

Pros

Amazingly smooth performance. In X dragging windows when a video is playing , or resizing a browser window made me feel like a second class Linux citizen.

Multi-monitor support with mixed refresh rates!

GSYNC works! (kinda) .. I'm able to enable VRR within the KDE settings, and my monitor does response by adjusting the refresh rate while gaming. I haven't tested this extensively, but my initial impression is that it kicks on "sometimes" and not as stable as in X. With other games its been very stable holding the refresh rates. So there are factors involved that still need working out, but it's basically here guys.

On the topic of GSYNC, I'm acutally getting better game rendering performance. A better and more stable FPS compared to X. I also have not tested this extensively, but general impression is really positive.

Many more apps support Wayland now wihtout a lot of fussing.

Electron apps are running a lots more stable. Firefox and Chromium support is easily enabled with a flag, and makes the performance so good.

MPV , and SMoothVideoPlayer just work without any extra configuration. All little hangups I had in the past

Steam works great. All the wine games work great though it, and also in Lutris / Bottles.

Cons

Still no Night mode support, although I know this is coming.

Still some buggyness with KDE which causes the panel to freeze up sometimes. I set a hotkey to run 'plasmashell --replace' when this happens, and it seamlessly fixes it without interrupting anything else.

Very rare kwin_wayland crash while doing some intensive xwayland stuff.


I know I'm forgetting some things so I'll answer questions, but I've been basically in Wayland for the past few weeks, and unless I run into any major showstoppers I haven't already, I'm good to stay.

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

That's good, but such a low bar we give them

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

Very legal and very cool

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

Conservatives lie to pollsters

[-] oldlamps@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Definitely. I have a pair of pixel buds that give me very noticeable latency when paired in Windows. I've never been able to find a way to use the low latency codecs to fix this.

In Linux it's a complete opposite experience. I have a menu with every codec in the book, and I can actually watch video in Linux without even noticing any latency now.

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