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[–] TornadoRex 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As someone who dabbles in Linux but is ultimately a regular people, what’s the advantage of this?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TornadoRex 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That’s pretty awesome. I imagine this would be a huge advantage with the growth of Linux gaming too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I suppose the Steam Deck experience would be a bit worse if it wasn't running on Wayland 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The games on Steam Deck are already running in Wayland using gamescope IIRC

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it could be and it will be

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what? I'm on PopOS, with Nvidia GPU, and my "g-sync" VRR works fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

PopOS uses GNOME which hopefully uses Wayland

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I can confirm that PopOS 22.04 is definitely running on X. wayland is officially coming when Cosmic releases.

That said, I see that Wayland is "available" if I want to manually switch to it - but it is definitely disabled as a default (and current) setting.