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How does Gnome's Mutter wayland display server currently handle fractional scaling? The hidden config you currently have to enable is called

scale-mo

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What? How?

I know about rendering images in the terminal with Block Elements, but I just tried the demo in my Gnome terminal and it seems...

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Poor guy. I can't imagine posting the "instruction" verbatim in the commit message is going to go over well with that manager, if it is verbatim...

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If you want to leave your screen on, a screensaver is still a good idea for LCD screens. They might not technically "burn in" the way CRTs do,...

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Even though those look like rhetorical questions: Pipewire solves a lot of issues.
It was originally meant as a video-counterpart to Pulseaudio,...

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I was told it was almost impossible for Wine to support Wayland because the Win32 API likes to absolutely position windows on the screen (like menus)...

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There's been a bug in FS-Cache since a few versions that cause a kernel panic when doing a read() shortly after a write(), so it's unusable anyway at...

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How advanced is Sway when compared to the wayland compositors of Gnome & KDE? It seems like it's so easy to manipulate. Whenever I lookup something...

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I know the pitfalls of premature optimization, and how it's the root of all evil, but the amount of significant performance improvements Daniel Van Vugt...

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Interesting. So the Arch-based distros like Manjaro & EndeavourOS are probably at the bottom because they ship a (mostly) vanilla Linux kernel?

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I'm all for more Wayland improvements! I've been using Gnome Shell with Wayland for a few weeks now, and it's mostly going very smooth. Taking a screenshot...

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Good to hear it's still being worked on! A bug got in the fscache code of the 5.6 kernel, causing it to randomly crash. Getting back access to your NFS...

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When are they going to change the name? "Pop!_OS" makes it seem childish.

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That's optimistic. Anyway, what's a few more months? It's been like this for as long as I remember....

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I think so, too. I already had an Openmoko, a Nokia N900 maemo and the Ubuntu BQ phone. Out of those 3, only the N900 was a device you could actually...