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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I remember some 10-15 years ago when I'd look at the y windows website every couple of months hoping for some news of progress, simply because I was sick of x11 being so crappy. I hated it, it was so fiddly, it didn't work right, I just wanted something that worked.
So you can imagine how happy I was when Wayland started taking off. Here was the promise of something better, something that just worked, it sounded amazing. And yet, today I'm still running xorg and I will be for the foreseeable future.

The reason is simply that in the time passed xorg just became usable, I don't have to think about it, it works reliability, it has all the features I need and I hardly ever have to touch it. Meanwhile, I log into my Wayland session and instantly 3 or 4 of the applications I use daily either don't work or act weird. I go and try and fix the issues and I'm told to just accept it, or that I actually don't exist because Wayland works perfectly for everyone. And I'm not even using an Nvidia card, just plain Radeon.

So I quit and go back to what works. Maybe in a couple of years, until then: no thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you need this frequently, I really suggest you look into GPU forwarding. I have a Windows VM setup with a second card and it works perfectly, I use it for games and CAD all the time. Figure out your iommu groups, pop a second card in your computer (and optionally a second nvme drive if you want max performance), and use virt-manager and the arch wiki to set it up.

For accessing the machine you can use a second monitor input, or you can get a window to the machine with looking glass or moonlight. I use moonlight as it lets me play games from my laptop on the couch, and looking glass was causing windows to crash sometimes.

It's a bit of work to set it all up but when you're done it should just be one XML file and maybe one modprobe.d config file.

I think I've been using this for over a year now and the single pain point I encountered in all that time was maybe that usb input hotplug isn't supported, though there's ways to fix that, but I haven't bothered.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's for their own safety.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm guessing this might be a pre-emptive response to all the Snapchat lawsuits. Basically, parents are suing Snapchat because their kids talked to drug dealers using it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is mostly my opinion, but I think everyone in the EU expects this conduct from Orban, and they just go along with it for the sake of progress.

My opinion is that the EU leaders secretly love him because he's very useful. As an authoritarian and certified asshole he gets to veto things without too much consideration over his public image. He vetoes things the EU leaders want shut down so they can pretend they were totally gonna do it if not for that pesky Orban.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Kirchhoff's Current Law?

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