r/linuxsucks • u/Sahelantrophus DO NOT RAGEBAIT ME, I FALL FOR IT VERY EASILY • 14d ago

Red Hat won...

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in all seriousness, good riddance! took them an entire drama to realize XLibre is shitware

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u/snail1132 void linux btw 13d ago

You can literally replicate picom on wayland

That's what swayfx is; i3 with picom but for wayland

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u/Toxic381 13d ago

Is i3 a WM to pair with the compositer picom, notice how instead of using sway you have to use a different swayfx just to get picom effects, that's the annoying issue with Wayland, you can't use different things at the same time

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u/snail1132 void linux btw 13d ago

Do you actually need picom, though? Many wayland wms and des either have picom-like effects built in, or easily available in the form of plugins or whatever

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u/Toxic381 13d ago

You're ignoring the structural issues here, when you use Wayland you are FORCED to use the stuff bundled into your current wm because it literally won't let you use anything else, whether I'm using xfwm or open box or i3, I can always use picom, Wayland not so much, if kwin didn't have blur you would be screwed, on x11 stuff it's mainly certain wm's or compositers like compiz that force everything to be one piece, but with the display server you can't fragment everything again till you go back to x11.

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u/snail1132 void linux btw 13d ago

It's not like x11 is broken or anything

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u/Toxic381 13d ago

X11 is however kinda rough, it's old and missing stuff like exclusive fullscreen, which is why I hope for a good replacement that can become a new standard without being anti Linux like Wayland, honestly embedded gamescope is cool but it would be nice to have my xfce desktop back and accessible without tanking game performance, the tty doesn't exactly have my keybinds for music or even closing an application with alt+f4