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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

545.29.02 makes Wayland far more usable with an Nvidia card. We finally have Nightlight support in Gnome.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Took me a second to figure out that was the Nvidia drivers version number. I was wondering if gnome made another major version shift from 45 to 545 for a second :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Night light was the big one for me. If I remember correctly they wanted to implement a workaround for night light on nvidia gpus on wayland for KDE Plasma 6. I guess that's kinda superfluous now 😄

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Can't watch the video rn so going to be THAT person who asks a question that may be answered in the video....

I have a remote server running PopOS! I use with the gnome DE, I use xrdp to connect to it, have done some hinting in past about ways to use Wayland instead but had no luck. Does this slow decom mean development for Wayland over rdp may be coming soon?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Gnomes built-in RDP should work. There's also RustDesk which offers proper Wayland support.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

FreeRDP and wayvnc are supposed to work.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They still haven't added DRM Leasing to Wayland, which is needed for SteamVR to work and considering KDE (has had it for literally years, since 2021) and even COSMIC DE (and it's not even out yet) both already have it, it's just rediculous.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only thing keeping me on X11 at this point is Slack screen share feature. It doesn't work on Wayland to share the entire screen (specific apps do) and it is entirely Slacks fault here.

X11 also has slightly higher FPS for gaming but not much.

[–] AlijahTheMediocre 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Once Wine gets proper Wayland support instead of running through Xwayland the fps situation will change.

And for Slack/Discord they'd have Wayland support if they didnt use ancient Electron versions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

And for Slack/Discord they'd have Wayland support if they didnt use ancient Electron versions.

When tech debt finally catches up as a bug...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/J13ohRUJpWQ?

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That channel seems really cool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yup. Nicco is a Plasma contributor, and probably on the KDE team (correct me if I'm wrong)