Very exciting, but this is very very slow on my x220 compared to xwayland -- running swaywm.
Sway is really fast, I don't think the slowness is a problem with sway. I am wondering if my x220's Intel card is just too slow. I will try shortly on a much faster system.
I'm waiting to hear from someone running it under GNOME/Wayland before filing bugs, though.
That's sad though, because it means my x230 probably won't fare any better. Are you using modesetting or the SNA (xf86-video-intel) driver?
edit: don't mind me, it uses modesetting.
But I think it will be fine once they flush some things out. Everything in wayland is smooth and fast except this. And this was just enabled. Firefox in general even on Xwayland is super fast on this old system too. It probably just a matter of time until it is all smooth again.
I'd imagine your GPU is very much considered legacy.
My T450s cost me ~$2700 new, and it is faster in some cases, but the cost/performance ratio just does not pay off to have such a expensive system these days.
Should also note, that because the x220 has a higher TDP than newer ultrabooks I can get a few things done faster. The last time I tried emacs compiles near 20 seconds faster on the x220 than a T450s.
I also found a neat hack, not related to the x220, but any laptop really. When I am waiting on long compiles I take a compressed air can and turn it upside down and jet the cool liquid into the heat sink. The temp drops and you can shave a bit of time off a compile or what not if you have the wherewithal to continue to deliver small shots of cool fluid. I mostly feel okay doing it because it is only a $150 laptop...
The new usb-c side dock solution, worse keyboards, and the ultrabook form factor's thermal properties...
I think this is a good starting point to find more information about it. Its called the x210.
The price goes up on the x200/x220s the nicer they look, and if they work, but you are looking at a max price of $250 if you don't wait for the good deals.
Now I've switched to a T470s which seems a good trade off between size, connectivity and performance. It's roughly the same size as my Macbook Air (13", 2014) but a little lighter, and has ports for HDMI, Ethernet, USB 3.0 x3, audio, USB-C/TB3 and dock connector. I only get maybe 6 hours on the battery which is a bit disappointing though...
The S series starting in the T460 I think is crap. Having the big honking external battery is a must. The non S series are as big as the T450s were and you get all your ports too. My T450s gets over 20hours battery life with the extended battery.
That being said I wonder if you could get more life out of your T460s. Check with powertop how many watts you use in idle. You should be able to get it to 3w (I can get mine t450s to 2.5w) idle. Use the turntables in powertop -- set them to "GOOD", you can write a systems service to enable them on boot.
For me the key to saving battery life is to optimize how much you use when you are not using your laptop.
Please check your cooling setup and replace the thermal paste with something high quality if needed as what you are doing right now is dangerous.
Computers can now easily have a 10 year usable lifespan.
Heck Nvidia provides drivers for your modern kernel for devices all the way back to 2007.
Maybe 4x is your cut-off point for where it's worth it to upgrade?
In actual use newer machines don't seem to come with much improvement in performance for a lot of tasks.
For me my limited supply of money is the primary constraint. I'll probably upgrade when my machine stops working.
Anything requiring server is in server.