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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by andrewnicolalde on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:54AM (#27660673)
Regarding screen tearing and trackpad issues, these are largely gone. Wayland has more or less solved the screen tearing issue and I have yet to encounter a poor trackpad experience using a modern machine, in my case an XPS 15 9570.
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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by tssva on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:46AM (#27661901)
Neither of these issues have been resolved by Wayland on my modern Thinkpad 490. There is still awful screen tearing when watching videos and trackpad multitouch gesture support is still a mess on Linux. Gnome 40 added some gestures for navigating the desktop but beyond that the situation is horrible.
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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by abyssin on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:20AM (#27660901)
Screen tearing isn’t gone, unfortunately. Watching videos on my Linux machine is a pain. I use a Lenovo T460s and I’ve spent too much time looking for a solution (more then an hour). I like the freedom of a Linux OS (i3m is cool) but it looks so bad compared to MacOS.
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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by chme on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:08AM (#27660796)
Wayland is great, however it also makes screen recording more difficult.
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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by andrewnicolalde on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:26AM (#27660954)
True. For "wl-roots"-based compositors like swaywm, check out wf-recorder[1].

[1]https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by chme on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:30AM (#27663183)
I know about those solutions, and it works for me on sway in general. But is was not a simple out-of-the-box experience you have with X11.

And there are still multiple issues: For instance with X11 you can select a specific window. I have not found a way to do this in with a wayland compositor yet.

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