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I guess it’s all about choice of hardware now. If you use components designed to support Linux life will be pretty smooth. I’m sure someone will point out the

by Lio 6y ago

I guess it’s all about choice of hardware now. If you use components designed to support Linux life will be pretty smooth. I’m sure someone will point out the nvidia has a reputation for being linux hostile which does limit your choice a bit. Currently running Fedora on an XPS13 Dev edition laptop. Wayland, Gnome and Firefox are working together very nicely. Mixed HiDPI with standard seems to be solved now. I’ve seen the odd glitch where an app gets confused as you move from one screen to another but overall very good. Trackpad latency is improving but still not quite perfect. The fact that it’s close and constantly improving though makes me very positive about using Linux in place of my MBP full time. I actually miss the Gnome window management shortcuts when I move back to my Mac.

teruakohatu 6y ago
Has Wayland figured out how to allow users to take screenshots? I would like to switch to Linux/Wayland from my mac but I need to share screenshots with co-workers.
- Vogtinator 6y ago
  I've been using the Plasma Wayland session for quite some time now and screenshots have been working fine basically from the start and some time ago screensharing with pipewire got implemented. Chromium and krfb support that, so both WebRTC and VNC work as expected.
- vetinari 6y ago
  You can take screenshots under Wayland, you just can not use random X11 tool that you were used to. All Wayland compositors come with some tool, that can take screenshots.
  - RMPR 6y ago
    The real issue is the clipboard which gets cleaned after closing the Window from where you copied.
    - vetinari 6y ago
      I would guess that the format negotiation for clipboard data has something to do with that. You cannot negotiate when the originating app is not there anymore. But then, is it a real problem? I understand, that some users might be inconvenienced by that, because they got used to it in their workflow... but is it really a showstopper?

by Lio 6y ago

teruakohatu 6y ago

Has Wayland figured out how to allow users to take screenshots? I would like to switch to Linux/Wayland from my mac but I need to share screenshots with co-workers.

Vogtinator 6y ago
I've been using the Plasma Wayland session for quite some time now and screenshots have been working fine basically from the start and some time ago screensharing with pipewire got implemented. Chromium and krfb support that, so both WebRTC and VNC work as expected.
vetinari 6y ago
You can take screenshots under Wayland, you just can not use random X11 tool that you were used to. All Wayland compositors come with some tool, that can take screenshots.
- RMPR 6y ago
  The real issue is the clipboard which gets cleaned after closing the Window from where you copied.
  - vetinari 6y ago
    I would guess that the format negotiation for clipboard data has something to do with that. You cannot negotiate when the originating app is not there anymore. But then, is it a real problem? I understand, that some users might be inconvenienced by that, because they got used to it in their workflow... but is it really a showstopper?