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0 pointstssva4y ago0 comments

Great. The workaround is much worse battery usage, screen tearing and a horrible trackpad experience.

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Regarding screen tearing and trackpad issues, these are largely gone. Wayland has more or less solved the screen tearing issue and I have yet to encounter a poor trackpad experience using a modern machine, in my case an XPS 15 9570.

tssvaOP4y ago

Neither of these issues have been resolved by Wayland on my modern Thinkpad 490. There is still awful screen tearing when watching videos and trackpad multitouch gesture support is still a mess on Linux. Gnome 40 added some gestures for navigating the desktop but beyond that the situation is horrible.

abyssin4y ago

Screen tearing isn’t gone, unfortunately. Watching videos on my Linux machine is a pain. I use a Lenovo T460s and I’ve spent too much time looking for a solution (more then an hour). I like the freedom of a Linux OS (i3m is cool) but it looks so bad compared to MacOS.

chme4y ago

Wayland is great, however it also makes screen recording more difficult.

andrewnicolalde4y ago

True. For "wl-roots"-based compositors like swaywm, check out wf-recorder[1].

[1]https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

chme4y ago

I know about those solutions, and it works for me on sway in general. But is was not a simple out-of-the-box experience you have with X11.

And there are still multiple issues: For instance with X11 you can select a specific window. I have not found a way to do this in with a wayland compositor yet.

craftinator4y ago

It's funny, I've been using Linux pretty much my entire adult life, and out of the issues you've pointed out, the only ones I've experienced have been with Windows; always reminds me to do a full wipe, not a dual boot.

whosaidwhatnow4y ago

The track pad issues seem to largely be gone.

I still get screen tearing.

I am running on a laptop, but I typically keep it plugged in as often as possible to save the battery so I haven't noticed if it's good or bad.

It's still a good trade IMO.

int_19h4y ago

Trackpad is silky smooth on Star Labs laptops.

tssvaOP4y ago

It isn't whether it is smooth or not. The issue is the mess that is multitouch gesture support on Linux.

int_19h4y ago

What kind of gestures do you have in mind? Scrolling and zooming seems to work fine for me.

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andrewnicolalde4y ago

tssvaOP4y ago

abyssin4y ago

chme4y ago

Wayland is great, however it also makes screen recording more difficult.

andrewnicolalde4y ago

True. For "wl-roots"-based compositors like swaywm, check out wf-recorder[1].

[1]https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

chme4y ago

I know about those solutions, and it works for me on sway in general. But is was not a simple out-of-the-box experience you have with X11.

And there are still multiple issues: For instance with X11 you can select a specific window. I have not found a way to do this in with a wayland compositor yet.

craftinator4y ago

whosaidwhatnow4y ago

The track pad issues seem to largely be gone.

I still get screen tearing.

I am running on a laptop, but I typically keep it plugged in as often as possible to save the battery so I haven't noticed if it's good or bad.

It's still a good trade IMO.

int_19h4y ago

Trackpad is silky smooth on Star Labs laptops.

tssvaOP4y ago

It isn't whether it is smooth or not. The issue is the mess that is multitouch gesture support on Linux.

int_19h4y ago

What kind of gestures do you have in mind? Scrolling and zooming seems to work fine for me.

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