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>Wayland has existed since more than 10 years and it has still not been able to release a usable system. Fedora has has it on by default for about 4 years now and its perfectly usa…

Its extremely slow and does not support CUDA. I think the problem is nvidia blocks them somehow from changing the clock speed on the gpu so it gets stuck running in its slowest spe…

Wayland already provides a less buggy and more polished experience than X did for me. So I'd say job well done.

>Hats off to the Wayland devs. We're cheering you from the sidelines. Its pretty horrible how much toxic crap gets directed at the people who actually do all of the work. Just look…

You could try it in chrome which has wayland support. Wayland support was added to chrome and electron recently but it looks like most electron apps are on old versions.

The only downside is anything running in xwayland (Essentially just apps on old versions of electron and wine) will pick the scale of one of your monitors and not switch when dragg…

For me I have a 60fps 4k monitor and a 1080p monitor. I want a higher refresh rate monitor for gaming but I do not want to drop down to 1440p on my main monitor so I am waiting for…

>if this is really the future of desktop Linux, why doesn't it gain more momentum? Nvidia is the major blocker here and there is very little wayland devs can do to fix this. Fedora…

The problem has been crippling the Linux desktop for many years now and it still remains unsolved in X which must indicate that either it is not realistically possible or it is so …

Its almost always cheaper to just buy a mac mini than to rent one out 24/7 though. I think Apple also made a tos change banning renting them by the hour as well.

Its different based on what service you use but pretty much all of them just involve dropping a line of curl in to your crontab file to run every minute.

Its a valid comment. I tried to run synapse on a reasonable VM and it was unusably slow. Essentially you either use the main server or you are a large org that can pay for a powerf…

Installed it in the second quarter of 2020 but I just checked my isos folder and it looks like I have ubuntu server 19.10. Good to see python 2 finally kicked out.

Because governments outsource everything possible and end up with no persistent talent that really understands whats going on so you end up spending all the money on interfacing wi…

Plain old HTML stops being responsive as soon as you try to do anything more than text. A plain HTML table would be horrible on mobile. If you want to reflow anything that isn't te…

Yes, either that or put up with the many problems of X

Every day I become more and more of the opinion that Fedora/RHEL are the only distros that are actually worth using. I recently installed ubuntu server to see what it was like comp…

No one who understands wayland was under the delusion that wayland would protect against an application which has full access to your user directory. Wayland becomes secure when co…

>To limit what malicious software that runs as one's user can do, one must limit what the user can do This is completely untrue. You can gain root access on Android and have full a…

You don't have to, package maintainers and developers do. Flatpak gives them the tools to do this. Flatpak solves a lot of other problems like making program installs a user level …

There are like 10 weak points in the linux security model. Wayland plugs one of them but there are still a bunch of ways around it. Yes any program you install from the package man…

If you actually use a modern config like the defaults on Fedora it all just works. 100% of these problems come from people trying to use the proprietary nvidia drivers which is fil…

>I was able to get per-monitor scaling to work X11 is not capable of doing this properly. Wayland is and as you probably know, nvidia refuses to support it which is out of the cont…

>It would be nice if distributions would do a better job of handling this for you They did, its called wayland. If you want to use a legacy tool you shouldn't expect it to work as …

>but everything has worked almost flawlessly. Its because everyone having issues is using X and likely 2 monitors with different dpis. On wayland its pretty much flawless unless yo…