canofbars

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by canofbars 6y ago
>Wayland has existed since more than 10 years and it has still not been able to release a usable system. Fedora has has it on by default for about 4 years now and its perfectly usable. I use it every day. The problem is much more serious
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by canofbars 6y ago
Its extremely slow and does not support CUDA. I think the problem is nvidia blocks them somehow from changing the clock speed on the gpu so it gets stuck running in its slowest speed.
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by canofbars 6y ago
Wayland already provides a less buggy and more polished experience than X did for me. So I'd say job well done.
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by canofbars 6y ago
>Hats off to the Wayland devs. We're cheering you from the sidelines. Its pretty horrible how much toxic crap gets directed at the people who actually do all of the work. Just look at the amount of abuse has been flung at the System
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by canofbars 6y ago
You could try it in chrome which has wayland support. Wayland support was added to chrome and electron recently but it looks like most electron apps are on old versions.
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by canofbars 6y ago
The only downside is anything running in xwayland (Essentially just apps on old versions of electron and wine) will pick the scale of one of your monitors and not switch when dragged across the border.
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by canofbars 6y ago
For me I have a 60fps 4k monitor and a 1080p monitor. I want a higher refresh rate monitor for gaming but I do not want to drop down to 1440p on my main monitor so I am waiting for 4k high refresh rate monitors to become affordable. Wayland
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by canofbars 6y ago
>if this is really the future of desktop Linux, why doesn't it gain more momentum? Nvidia is the major blocker here and there is very little wayland devs can do to fix this. Fedora has actively discouraged using the proprietary nvid
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by canofbars 6y ago
The problem has been crippling the Linux desktop for many years now and it still remains unsolved in X which must indicate that either it is not realistically possible or it is so much work that no one is willing to do it and likely never w
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by canofbars 6y ago
Its almost always cheaper to just buy a mac mini than to rent one out 24/7 though. I think Apple also made a tos change banning renting them by the hour as well.
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by canofbars 6y ago
Its different based on what service you use but pretty much all of them just involve dropping a line of curl in to your crontab file to run every minute.
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by canofbars 6y ago
Its a valid comment. I tried to run synapse on a reasonable VM and it was unusably slow. Essentially you either use the main server or you are a large org that can pay for a powerful machine to run it. The average person can not run a matri
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by canofbars 6y ago
Installed it in the second quarter of 2020 but I just checked my isos folder and it looks like I have ubuntu server 19.10. Good to see python 2 finally kicked out.
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by canofbars 6y ago
Because governments outsource everything possible and end up with no persistent talent that really understands whats going on so you end up spending all the money on interfacing with contractors.
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by canofbars 6y ago
Plain old HTML stops being responsive as soon as you try to do anything more than text. A plain HTML table would be horrible on mobile. If you want to reflow anything that isn't text you will need flexbox. There is literally no reason
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by canofbars 6y ago
Yes, either that or put up with the many problems of X
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by canofbars 6y ago
Every day I become more and more of the opinion that Fedora/RHEL are the only distros that are actually worth using. I recently installed ubuntu server to see what it was like compared to fedora server and was shocked to see that the p
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by canofbars 6y ago
No one who understands wayland was under the delusion that wayland would protect against an application which has full access to your user directory. Wayland becomes secure when combined with an application sandbox using SELinux/flatpa
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by canofbars 6y ago
>To limit what malicious software that runs as one's user can do, one must limit what the user can do This is completely untrue. You can gain root access on Android and have full access to do anything while still keeping application
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by canofbars 6y ago
You don't have to, package maintainers and developers do. Flatpak gives them the tools to do this. Flatpak solves a lot of other problems like making program installs a user level task without touching the OS. Which is needed because i
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by canofbars 6y ago
There are like 10 weak points in the linux security model. Wayland plugs one of them but there are still a bunch of ways around it. Yes any program you install from the package manager can still see everything but wayland combined with flat
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by canofbars 6y ago
If you actually use a modern config like the defaults on Fedora it all just works. 100% of these problems come from people trying to use the proprietary nvidia drivers which is filled with issues.
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by canofbars 6y ago
>I was able to get per-monitor scaling to work X11 is not capable of doing this properly. Wayland is and as you probably know, nvidia refuses to support it which is out of the control of linux developers. You can get everything working i
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by canofbars 6y ago
>It would be nice if distributions would do a better job of handling this for you They did, its called wayland. If you want to use a legacy tool you shouldn't expect it to work as nice as the current generation software.
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by canofbars 6y ago
>but everything has worked almost flawlessly. Its because everyone having issues is using X and likely 2 monitors with different dpis. On wayland its pretty much flawless unless you use 2 monitors at different scales and load an X applic
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by canofbars 6y ago
All I know is the gnome settings has a scaling section and everything respects that scale.
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by canofbars 6y ago
Electron is the biggest offender these days. I saw that they added support a few months ago but it seems the apps haven't turned it on yet
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by canofbars 6y ago
Our office lost internet connection for a day. We just connected to our phones and continued on.
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by canofbars 6y ago
I have been a react developer for 3 years and I don't even know how you set up a react project from scratch since it was already done when I started the job. I assume its pretty easy with lots of info available online though.
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by canofbars 6y ago
I usually only remember there is a thing that does what I want but not its name or exact usage.

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