Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree

Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by rkangel on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:37AM (#26748792)

I really think we're getting there. Wayland is a much saner, more consistent experience than X11 ever was. I use Fedora and with Gnome and Mutter you get a solid experience. Not everyone likes Gnome but I find it to be generally pretty good and productive to work in.

There are some gaps in Wayland - screen sharing being the obvious one. But these gaps are in the process of being closed (pipewire being part of the picture). Give it another year and I believe that Wayland will be a solid solution for all the major use cases (multi-monitor, high-dpi, screen sharing).

My other issue with Linux as a workstation solution is OOM handling, and even that is being worked on!

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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by salamandersauce on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:20AM (#26749082)

Nvidia really needs to get on Wayland already. I tried a few months ago to run KDE on Wayland+Nvidia it was literally unusable. I could not put a panel down without bugs. I'm running mixed DPI with the Nvidia driver and it's just easiest to make seperate X screens despite all the downsides that brings :/.

I'm going to be sad that a lot of little WMs are probably never going to make the jump. I'm not sure Wayland is ever going to get that many.

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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by exciteabletom on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:37PM (#26752686)

nVidia works fine on Wayland on Gnome because Gnome implemented nVidia's EGLstreams as well as GBM

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