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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don't believe that they're a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland's technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don't want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don't want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn't think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not at all the same thing. That requires downscaling some screens, which makes everything blurry and breaks subpixel AA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, wherever someone says "X has/has had fractional scaling" I just ignore them because it's never actually true fractional scaling that doesn't look and act like utter crap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It also tears significantly in my experience, which is pretty unusable....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I know you live in this weird universe where the screen that is 12 inches from my face actually looks like crap but it just isn't so you are merely confused.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is literally how Wayland is scaling your shit you just don't know how anything works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Huh? That is not how Wayland does it at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Without the recently added wp-fractional-scale-v1, yes, it will do that if you use fractional scales (albeit per window rather than per monitor). Not however if you stick to integer scales, as they might do in the 1080p+4k use case.