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[mangeek]

I've been 100% on Wayland for almost a year, and Wayland is less trouble for me than Xorg was. Full-speed fractional scaling is dope. The only weirdness...

[mangeek]

I'm imagining that in a year or two, most new software, from toolkits, to game engines, and desktop environments will be outputting to Vulkan. In that...

[mangeek]

Raspberry Pi now has Transparent Huge Page support. I filed a bug a while ago, and they addressed it in 21.04. It should boost performance a bit for apps...

[mangeek]

I guess what I'm asking is... how relevant is 'desktop GUI' for a system that's more than five years old?

I've been using Linux as a desktop...

[mangeek]

I think that's what they're talking about. Raising the baseline so they can write parts of the code itself for modern SIMD instead of depending on compiler...

[mangeek]

Those systems aren't ever going to run Mesa 21.2. They're going to run old versions of LTS distros, and likely never be upgraded. When they can't be patched,...

[mangeek]

I was just browsing through QEMU and virt-manager repos and a thought came to me... Is there some strategic risk of all these things being on GTK 2? I...

[mangeek]

As silly as it sounds to advocate cutting five year-old video drivers in one project and advocate thirty year-old tech in another, m68k is an excellent...

[mangeek]

OK @Sonadow, then I'd really be looking into why your Iris-compatible hardware isn't using Iris. Iris is a good thing, and it's supposedly supported on...

[mangeek]

Bummer! Maybe the Iris driver just isn't pointing to your specific PCI DeviceIDs? Iris -should- be driving your hardware by now. Can you force Iris with...

[mangeek]

Sonadow , assuming you're on a recent software stack, could you be seeing i965 in the logs from the setup of the framebuffer and stuff, while Iris is...

[mangeek]

I think this makes sense and honestly, I love my old hardware, but -does 3D performance matter- if you're running an old GPU that can't do OpenGL >4.3...

[mangeek]

I'm -really- excited by some of the potential future updates with GTK4 and GNOME 40+. I see a path opening for a native GNOME-Wayland-Vulkan desktop environment....

[mangeek]

I'm curious to know if it would be possible for a distro to 'switch 100%' to Wayland, and run full-screen XWayland as the only surface, the whole window...