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For me possibly the most interesting feature of this release is the possibility Of good GPU support on Gnu/Linux/Wayland.

https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/03/03/webgl-and-fgx-ac...

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I'm really struggling for reasons to care about what happens on Wayland... because I have yet to find any decent desktop environments or window managers for Wayland. Sway is a close contender, but the one major problem I have with it is the fact that on high-DPI displays XWayland applications appear blurry.

Do you have any recommendations for Wayland desktop environments or window managers?

Think of it like this instead: if more applications support wayland, then more people can switch to it, some of those will be developers who are then more willing to build/port DEs and WMs for it.

Except that it hasn't been a problem for years on e.g. GNOME. X11 applications work fine and are not blurry. They generally use 2x scaling. Only old Gtk2+ applications such as Inkscape and GIMP have small icons, but there is probably a workaround.

Sure, if you use Sway, you get blurry X11 applications. If this is a problem for you, don't use Sway ;).

I haven't tried Wayfire yet, but it looks fun enough that it might get me to install Wayland: https://wayfire.org/

No idea how practical it is, but I miss Compiz Fusion with the windows wobbling and burning up, and if it will bring some joy to my desktop in these trying times, that's all I ask.

gnome-shell has worked for years with HiDPI and Wayland. XWayland applications are not blurry, GNOME configures them to use to use the GNOME scaling setting and they look as sharp as native Wayland applications.

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2064

Slightly confused, is that PR ready for use right now?

The out-of-the-box setup on Fedora $Beta is probably the best Wayland environment that exists right now.

GNOME.

How do Chromebooks fare on this? I would naively assume Google forces some quality and conformance testing for Chromebook vendors, so they should at least have a basic GPU stack working.

Of course (not meaning to be snarky to you) Chromebooks can do hardware acceleration. Off the shelf hardware that supports Linux can also do it with no issue if you compile ChromiumOS yourself.

You can see it for yourself if you have a reasonably modern non-Nvidia device. You can find a build here [1], and 7z x it to a device or use Rufus, and when you boot it you can check a guest session and see how watching a YouTube video does not light your laptop on fire.

I am very glad that Firefox is getting there too. Judging by this Reddit comment [2] it's still got a long way to go, but that's quite fair when it's just the one Red Hatter working on it I believe.

[1] https://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/?dir=daily&order=modifie...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/fwk3yt/firefox_750_r...

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