Spectacle8011

I don't disagree, but this video is absolutely worth the watch. I've read a fair bit on X history but there's a lot in here I didn't know specifics of or didn't know about at all.

Kernel-level anti-cheat drivers for games, mainly.

Motherfuckers!

So you ditched and unethical mega corp that runs ads for a wanna be unethical mega corp that also mines your data and you’re happy about it? Oh boy the illusion.

What data mining is Canonical doing, exactly?

I don't really have a least favorite distribution. I mean, I guess between Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Manjaro, and Gentoo, the least appealing choices to me are Manjaro and Gentoo. Manjaro is just Arch but worse, because the packages are old and likely to cause incompatibilities with AUR packages that need really up-to-date system packages, and I...don't trust the maintainers to have configured everything better than I could have myself. Just based on history.

Debian has ancient packages. That's the only reason. I'd just end up using Flatpak packages or compiling from source.

Any other distribution I could use, including Gentoo, but Arch is the sweet spot for me.

That would be the logical conclusion, but I believe Debian uses the old version for years after it's unsupported and might backport security fixes depending on how severe they are. Either way, I personally wouldn't trust Debian or Ubuntu to properly fix security issues with a program (or in this case, programming language) that they do not actively develop or maintain themselves.

It's good to see you guys on Lemmy :)

I tested it a bit a few days ago, but I'll see if I can give it a more rigorous go today. The ones I've found Mojeek to be weak in are bug strings that programs I'm working with spit out. Although I think I've had more luck in the past few months.

Kagi is the only search engine I use which has really good results and no junk links. ...and you have to pay for it, of course. It's a meta search engine but they use their own indexes for news results and Teclis, which indexes small commercial sites with fewer than 5 trackers. One of the cool features it added recently was an icon for identifying paywalled articles.

I'd like to recommend Mojeek, my default search engine, but it still has a way to go. If you're just looking for an "answer engine" rather than a general search engine...I guess an LLM probably isn't a bad place to start?

I've been getting stutters for a long time. I've kind of come to accept it as part of the Proton / NVIDIA experience :) Though the stuttering has finally receded to almost nothing since running KDE Wayland. It's actually a lot worse on X11 for me.

Hm, odd. I'm playing Rocket League with Proton fine with no flickering. I'm using KDE. Proton 8 shouldn't have any of the Wine Wayland stuff yet...

And yeah, I had a massive flickering problem for my entire monitor on 535, but the problem is now localized to XWayland programs on 545, so it's an improvement for me.

I'd completely forgotten about that. I do that for Signal already. Thanks for the tip! Bitwarden finally doesn't lag (that was annoying the hell out of me) but Freetube is still a stuttery mess. FreeTube is an Electron-based program, so no idea...

(I just remembered I could startup Thunderbird with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 too)

It's mainly just Steam that's horrible...really, the worst one of the lot by far. Massive flickering in the client. Games themselves work fine though.

I recognize this is an odd comment to make, but I'm glad to see this screenshot tool supports capturing a window in Wayland. My next question is, can the screenshot tool be invoked from the command-line or via a script?