Billegh

Good, I have a few volume licenses for you then. 🫠

What a tragedy. Would you be willing to accept some of mine? I mean, you already have six now…

Because Wayland is fundamentally very different from the older X protocol, and many programs don’t even directly do X. They leverage libraries that do it for them. Those libraries are a huge part of the lag. Once GTK and Qt and the like start having a stable Wayland interface, you’ll see a huge influx of support.

A big part of the slowness is why Wayland is a thing to begin with. X hid a lot of the display hardware from apps. Things like accessing 3d hardware had to be done with specialized display clients. This was because X is natively a remote display tool. You can use X to have your program show its display somewhere else. Wayland won’t do that because that’s not the point. Applications that care will have goals for change. Applications don’t care will support it once someone else does it for them.

Right now, the only things that would benefit from Wayland are games and apps that make heavy use of certain types of hardware. Half of those don’t care about linux, while the other half is OK with X and xwayland.

They could possibly mean neovim. They appear to have spelled it wrong, though.

Paulie

I feel all of that. Debian is painfully slow to bring up-to-date, and all of Arch is neurotic.

You might have a better time with Fedora as they are closest to Wayland, but Fedora is pathologically open source to the point that if there aren’t open source drivers for a thing you’re triple tucked…

Gaming on linux has been, still is, and always will be a struggle. I hope you give it a try again in a year or so. I personally use Debian as my base system, with an Arch VM on CPU and GPU passthrough for work and gaming. You’ll get there eventually! ☺️

Which distro were you using?

Can confirm; am asshole contrarian.

Octopodeez nuts

What power up do I need to get my foreskin back? 😥😥😥

Arch is absolutely divine with its documentation. There is a bit of a “you must be this tall to ride” with them though. Like the tiny [AUR] link. That’s not really well explained, and is even more opaque if you follow the link.

Because Fedora is open source only to the point of it being pathological. If there isn’t am open source driver most time you’re just boned. Someone new is going to have a tough time with it, and the community is on average a very “lol rtfm” bunch. Not as bad as Arch, but that’s not saying much.

Meanwhile, despite the problems around Ubuntu, Debian communities are much more understanding and helpful. Mint even with old packages is going to be an easier time for a newbie. Certainly a newbie unfamiliar with the way entirely too much of the FOSS community is.

Twenty-nine gigs?!? My brother in christ, that’s barely even a Thursday. Are you ok? Do you need a VPN?

Sorry, that will forever be Did Not Finish for me. 😣

I tried that but then i went and got their siblings j and k. They’re threatening to burn down my plane. What do I do now?

Something something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…

Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running

Joke’s on you, .tar isn’t compression

That’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.

You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.