Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports
by pippy on Sunday August 24, 2014 @10:29PM
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Each time I've attempted to use Linux as my main OS it's always X11 that scares me off. Booting into console to edit xorg.conf gets tiring after a while, spending hundreds of dollars for graphics card that has more stable drivers, the general ancient 90's feel. I've tried it multiple times, but gave up each time.
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Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports
by mercurial on Monday August 25, 2014 @02:15AM
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Per default, you don't have xorg.conf anymore on modern distros. I have been in the "edit xorg.conf" boat as well, but there have been tremendous improvements since the bad old days.
You may be surprised by the latest versions, then.
I haven't edited xorg.conf in a long time (years?). And I'm using a power user oriented distro, Arch Linux.
As long as you use the open source drivers, you'll be fine. And lucky for you, the cheapest graphics cards (Intel integrated and AMD) have the best open source support.
Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports
by donniezazen on Monday August 25, 2014 @03:02AM
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Again this is very subjective. I have never had to mess with xorg. Things like Nvidia Optimus are obviously a tipping point of the problem.