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Example from 2020: Running Ubuntu with two displays each of which has a different scaling factor requires switching to Wayland, because on X11, any window that
by umanwizard 6y ago
Example from 2020: Running Ubuntu with two displays each of which has a different scaling factor requires switching to Wayland, because on X11, any window that touches the edge of one of the displays will run unusably slowly. (I don’t know why.) A non-technical “typical desktop user” would never have figured this out.
This is on a fully supported Linux machine (XPS 13 9300 Developer Edition).
- m4rtink 6y agoWell, thats mostly due to Ubuntu still defaulting to X. Fedora switched to Wayland by default back in 2016 and even RHEL 8 (released 2019) defaults to Wayland.
- umanwizard 6y agoI feel like that just reinforces my point. Figuring out which random unsupported distro to install on the Linux laptop you bought is even less feasible for non-technical users than choosing a different login session on Ubuntu.
- unixhero 6y agoThis guy isn't looking for solutions.
- StavrosK 6y agoIs there a way to use Wayland in Ubuntu? I run Kubuntu, not sure if that comes with Wayland by default.
- umanwizard 6y agoUbuntu ships with both, so you just need to choose a different desktop session at login time.
- unixhero 6y agoInstall Linux Mint and be done with it