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[–] padlock4995@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't watch the video rn so going to be THAT person who asks a question that may be answered in the video....

I have a remote server running PopOS! I use with the gnome DE, I use xrdp to connect to it, have done some hinting in past about ways to use Wayland instead but had no luck. Does this slow decom mean development for Wayland over rdp may be coming soon?

[–] BitPirate@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Gnomes built-in RDP should work. There's also RustDesk which offers proper Wayland support.

[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

FreeRDP and wayvnc are supposed to work.

[–] RustyOperator@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They still haven't added DRM Leasing to Wayland, which is needed for SteamVR to work and considering KDE (has had it for literally years, since 2021) and even COSMIC DE (and it's not even out yet) both already have it, it's just rediculous.

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

GNOME’s mantra is pretty much remove functionality if the maintenance burden is anything beyond lifting a finger. This might end up biting them however as it’s caused them to fall behind in supporting the features enterprises and consumers want out of a Linux desktop. Combine this with their weird obsession of making a pseudo-touch interface and it’s just not working.

[–] brunofin@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only thing keeping me on X11 at this point is Slack screen share feature. It doesn't work on Wayland to share the entire screen (specific apps do) and it is entirely Slacks fault here.

X11 also has slightly higher FPS for gaming but not much.

[–] AlijahTheMediocre@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once Wine gets proper Wayland support instead of running through Xwayland the fps situation will change.

And for Slack/Discord they'd have Wayland support if they didnt use ancient Electron versions.

[–] brunofin@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

And for Slack/Discord they'd have Wayland support if they didnt use ancient Electron versions.

When tech debt finally catches up as a bug...

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Microsoft teams screen share for me. Doesn't work at all with Wayland.

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[–] ultra@feddit.ro 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That channel seems really cool

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Yup. Nicco is a Plasma contributor, and probably on the KDE team (correct me if I'm wrong)