• Pantherina@feddit.de
    8·
    2 months ago

    Crazyy!

    Btw I am XWayland free since today!

    I have a list of recommended apps here

    Some apps need environment variables:

    Qt:

    • qpwgraph

    GTK

    • GPU Screen recorder, I guess

    Electron

    • Nextcloud Flatpak
    • MullvadVPN RPM
    • Signal Flatpak
    • (Element, I switched to the Webapp in Librewolf)
    • Freetube Flatpak

    You can use xlsclients -l to detect apps using XWayland.

    Some may even want to run apps through XWayland on purpose, like KeepassXC for Clipboard access or autotype. Lets see how long it takes to implement all the needed protocols.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        2·
        2 months ago

        True, if I use bottles Flatpak as a GTK wayland app, the actual apps still use XWayland.

        Not using any Wine apps though.

        • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, games are the big reason I jumped ship and I’m pretty excited about the ongoing work porting Wine to Wayland. I’m also too broke to upgrade from my Nvidia card so the efforts improving Nvidia on Wayland are greatly appreciated.

          Gotta save up for an education somehow.😄

          • Pantherina@feddit.de
            2·
            2 months ago

            Yes, “just buy new hardware” is not a solution.

            But dont let some news fool ya. NVIDIA already won the AI race, so their “new open source driver” will only benefit their newly sold products

            • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              Yeah, thankfully I’ve got a turing card (2000 +)which is said to be the cutoff for the open source drivers.

        • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’ll just wait for the official version to finish porting to Wayland. Nothing against the three guys working on this version. I’m sure they’re good people.

      • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
        6·
        2 months ago

        Flatpak saved my ass when I super broke my Arch upgrade but didn’t have time to fix it before work. I ran using only Flatpak apps for like 6 weeks because they were the only thing that worked

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          3·
          2 months ago

          Funny. True, on superstable but also super unstable systems, having separated apps makes most sense.

          Not actually on “immutable” rpm-ostree systems, as these have the best and most solid package management.

          So actually when people say “these immutable systems, you just use Flatpaks”, actually on the regular systems you should mainly use Flatpaks.

          • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 months ago

            Trying to set up snapshots is what broke my system. Not sure what the issue was exactly, but BTRFS was reporting a different amount of used space than there actually was, and my snapshots started recursively backing up until everything died

            Next time I install Linux I’m going to use Ext4 and snapshots out the gate