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I spend 2-3 days around the holidays to revive an old HP laptop with a Debian desktop distribution. I had problems with hibernation / suspend, but what was the show stopper for me was that there is still no smooth scrolling on Linux. [1]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2qd564/why_no_smooth...

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Personally, I wouldn't spend time setting smooth scrolling up, not to mention implementing it. I doesn't seem to have much impact to my reading. The scrollable things I use is the browser and a PDF reader. Firefox scrolls smoothly, while the PDF reader doesn't, but my experience reading with both is about the same. So I sympathize with devs who put their time into solving other problems.

I'd be interested in hearing from people who feel the opposite.

I disable smooth scrolling everywhere. I find it slow and distracting.

Application devs shouldn't have to implement smooth scrolling. The DE should, and make it toggleable on a per-application basis.

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