Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Released (alexxcons.github.io)
from that_leaflet@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 02 Nov 00:58
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HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 02 Nov 02:32 next collapse

I hope there are a few dank wallpapers for the meme

user@lemmy.one on 02 Nov 07:30 next collapse

I ❤️ xfce, dying for Wayland. Wish I knew how to ninja together xfce Wayland. As most apps are now compatible.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 02 Nov 08:53 next collapse

Xfce is mostly used on older hardware. Dying to see how many times slower it’ll become on Wayland. I’m guessing 3x.

Karmmah@lemmy.world on 02 Nov 09:53 next collapse

Why should it be slower?

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 02 Nov 10:11 collapse

Because I tried Wayland vs X11 on older hardware and sometimes it was noticeably slower?

user@lemmy.one on 02 Nov 10:06 next collapse

blasphemy! Off with ur head! 🤣

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 02 Nov 10:11 collapse

Off with your head for supporting the accessibility nightmare that is Wayland :)

SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml on 03 Nov 16:09 collapse

What do you mean by that? I’ve been using it in Plasma and haven’t had issues with it. Then again my use case might be different.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 03 Nov 16:54 collapse

Do you use screenreaders?

SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml on 04 Nov 00:49 collapse

I don’t.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 04 Nov 04:11 collapse

I believe that tells enough.

LeFantome@programming.dev on 02 Nov 21:44 next collapse

Other way around

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 03 Nov 16:14 collapse

In my experience, projects going to Wayland actually improves performance and system resource usage. I got around 200Mb RAM back, when I switched from Qtile X11 to Qtile Wayland. 900Mb on XOrg, 700Mb on Wayland. These are with the same configuration and the same programs being autostarted.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 03 Nov 16:55 collapse

Wayland does improve performance but only in some perspectives (for example, UI smoothness). In my case the negative impact looked like CPU overhead. It was easier to make the system stutter and some apps like Firefox worked more sluggishly. I suspect it’s because of how Wayland works fundamentally.

EDIT: you know the society is doomed when it downvotes comments about personal experience.

tekato@lemmy.world on 04 Nov 07:21 collapse

CPU overhead

I highly doubt you can conjure up a Wayland compositor that consumes more than 1% of your CPU, even eye-candy nightmares like Hyprland will not have any significant CPU usage.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 04 Nov 09:43 collapse

I know and htop didn’t show 100% usage either. It just felt like CPU overhead.

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 02 Nov 19:17 collapse

please no, XFCE is my last refuge for machines too old to support Wayland

LeFantome@programming.dev on 02 Nov 21:45 next collapse

I am running Wayland on my 2013 MacBook Air. Joe old is your hardware?

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 02 Nov 22:02 collapse

GTS 450 lol

Sustolic@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 16:16 next collapse

If I am not mistaken the GTS 450 should be more than powerful enough especially by Linux standards.

tekato@lemmy.world on 04 Nov 07:27 collapse

A lot of Wayland compositors have a GLES 2.0 renderer which should be supported by ancient GPUs. If you try Vulkan based compositors you might be out of luck.

zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml on 03 Nov 14:51 next collapse

you understand that you can still use x11 with KDE or gnome right?

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 03 Nov 16:15 collapse

They’re not killing X11 support, don’t worry. They’re just expanding to Wayland support.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 02 Nov 08:53 next collapse

Wait but it hasn’t been 2 years yet!

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 03 Nov 16:16 next collapse

IIRC, they expect to have it released in the first half of December if there are no issues or delays.

abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 03 Nov 19:57 next collapse

Blaze it

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 03 Nov 22:11 next collapse

did they release a changelog?

m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 21:07 collapse

Wanted to join the wallpaper contest but it has to be only and only through a Gitlab account, and the requeriments are rather limiting - and, specially, not a fan of contests that are decided by thumbs-up (or heart emojis, like in this case)