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by pjmlp 6 days ago
At least it isn't Wayland, or having to mix and match configurations until hardware video decoding on Chrome finally works.
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hparadiz 6 days ago
Wayland is a protocol. Not a program.

The top compositors right now for desktop are KDE Plasma, Hyprland, Gnome/Mutter and all of them implement the Wayland protocol independently.

For game wrappers Valve makes Gamescope (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope) which is also a Wayland compositor.

When you run a game through a wrapper like GameScope it will draw to the Wayland Server that GameScope is running and then that subsequently writes to the parent display server (which can actually be X or Wayland).

Anyway it's a far superior and more secure protocol than whatever Windows is doing and you should for sure have ChatGPT explain it to you.

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pjmlp 6 days ago
No need, I am fine running Linux distro headless for containers, or having Android and WebOS userspace instead on my other devices.

Gemini told me it was a good decision.

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hparadiz 6 days ago
You do know that one is literally the worst one right? It's like you walked in and went "I'm using Netscape"

Well whatever you'll find out.

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pjmlp 5 days ago
Nah the worst one is the Nazi Grok.
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