Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Performance

Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by tristan957 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @12:09PM (#39106178)

Linux support will definitely get better within the next year, but yeah this is my biggest pain point. Electron and other XWayland apps look terrible. Is there some environment variable that I can set to launch Electron apps with the correct command line arguments for Wayland?

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by alwayslikethis on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @12:26PM (#39106461)

Use a better DE. KDE allows not scaling xwayland apps, and Hyprland does too. Just set Xft.dpi to let it scale the old fashioned way. Electron can be started with wayland but it's often buggy.

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by tristan957 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @01:32PM (#39107524)

GNOME meets all my needs except this one, so I think I will stay here. Definitely looking for a less drastic solution.

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by vetinari on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:45PM (#39111023)

Many electron apps either ignore the ozone flags, or straight up ship with ancient electron, that doesn't support ozone/wayland at all.

The only way forward is bug the maintainers of the apps to do the right thing and support wayland properly. Electron itself does.

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by tristan957 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:38AM (#39114008)

Slack seems to work great with Wayland, so props to them. VSCode and Discord were giving me trouble however. Thanks for your insight.

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