Linux Desktop Environments System Usage

Re:Linux Desktop Environments System Usage by whalesalad on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:42PM (#33958443)

The problem for me is that I do not entirely know what Wayland is solving for me. I am looking at it from the pragmatic viewpoint. I will use whatever technology is superior, but for the last few years Wayland has not been a 100% drop-in replacement and certain applications don't work. Heck, for the longest time Wayland would straight up not run on modern nVidia hardware.

I have tried it, in fact I just rolled out Fedora 37 w/ KDE Plasma on Wayland to my new i7 box ... but I have only used it for a few hours as it is more of a toy project than a daily dev machine.

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Re:Linux Desktop Environments System Usage by dTal on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:01PM (#33959418)

Well, here's one unexpected benefit I discovered - vastly lower CPU use when playing videos. I don't know enough about display architecture to understand why, but on one of my more underpowered machines it makes the difference between being able to use streaming services, and not being able to.

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Re:Linux Desktop Environments System Usage by nyanpasu64 on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:11PM (#33961167)

Perhaps you can enable hardware video decoding on Firefox X11, by visiting about:config and setting media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled = true (unsure about media.ffmpeg.dmabuf-textures.enabled = true).

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