Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

A few years back I did a video on the PCSX2 project dropping support for Wayland, and now that has been completely turned around.

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PCSX2 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@PCSX2/115640402952686387
PCSX2 Github: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2
Disable Wayland: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/10179
Fixed: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/12333
QT Upstream Bug: https://qt-project.atlassian.net/browse/QTBUG-133919

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#PCSX2 #Linux #Wayland #Emulation

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Without a doubt Wayland is gaining popularity but how many people are actually using it is a kind of tough question to answer as we don't really have good data, but we can make some educated guesses

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Linux Usage: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/
Steam Hardware Survey: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/
Linux Hardware: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto
Wayland Stats: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server
Firefox Telemetry: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Wayland-X11-Stats
KDE Telemetry: https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/metrics-in-kde-are-they-useful/
Old Youtube Poll: https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx7XQfd7tCsi1-S2vG3aTq3Nxy9MJClh9t
New Youtube Poll: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxTMaPjQ7nsH-qZHvkvQbX6yQiVjy1u1tR

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#Wayland #Xorg #OpenSource #FOSS #LinuxDesktop

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After the discovering the fork of Waydroid called Lepton, I expected to see a FEX fork, well it turns out there's no need for a fork because Valve has literally been bankrolling the project from the start and has the founder on there payroll.

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Fex Website: https://fex-emu.com/
Fex Repo: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
Fex Anniversary Post: https://fex-emu.com/FEXiversary/
Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffais

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Recently it was discovered that Valve decided to fork the Waydroid project and give it the name Lepton as they did with Proton in the past forking from the WINE project

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Lepton Post: https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1995696024766300451
Waydroid: https://waydro.id/
Android Translation Layer: https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer
ValveTestApp: https://steamdb.info/app/3043620/info/
Lepton: https://steamdb.info/app/3029110/
Lepton Dev: https://steamdb.info/app/3056000/info/
Waydroid Post: https://x.com/waydroid/status/1995902635610669293
Final Brad Comment: https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1995867272930550160

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#Lepton #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamMachine #SteamFrame

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When you switch to Linux there are going to be some things which feel a bit weird but what would you consider to be the biggest culture shocks of making this switch.

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December is a time for giving and if you're using open source it's a time to support the projects you use, of course if you can't afford to do so that's fine, but you can at least share posts like this around.

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After 21 years of the bug report being open Firefox has finally decided to fix the awful .mozilla folder in the home directory and properly implement the XDG base directory specification.

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Mozilla AI Window: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
Mozilla AI: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-ai/ai-browser-features/
Mozilla Bug Report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356
Thunderbird Issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5TIqHTkTG4

Recently KDE announced that after the 6.7 release with 6.8 they would be going Wayland only, this is much earlier than when we initially thought it was going to happen so lets talk about this change.

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Kwin Split: https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2025/03/13/kwin_x11-and-kwin_wayland-split/
KDE Wayland Future: https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/
Portal Permissions: https://develop.kde.org/docs/administration/portal-permissions/
Fedora Email: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/5M7LYX7FRW7PUT3DMDKMP5W2PNZU4LEY/
Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1p79q6z/new_kde_blog_post_going_allin_on_a_wayland_future/

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Playnite is an incredibly popular app for managing your library of games on Windows and some time soon it will be coming to Linux in some form.

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Playnite: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite
Playnite on Linux: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/59
Avalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/
Cartidges: https://apps.gnome.org/Cartridges/
Pegasus: https://pegasus-frontend.org/
Lutris: https://lutris.net/
Bottles: https://usebottles.com/
Heroic Games Launcher: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
ES DE: https://es-de.org/
Opengamepad UI: https://github.com/ShadowBlip/OpenGamepadUI
Launchbox: https://www.launchbox-app.com/
Gamehub: https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub

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A few years back Google put stop to JPEG XL likely because it was directly competing with AVIF and now they've changed there mind and it's once again coming back after they couldn't stop it.

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Killed By Google: https://killedbygoogle.com/
The Change: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKcBw219k/m/NmOyvMCCBAAJ?pli=1
JPEG XL: https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/
2KliksPhilip Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlWjf8asI4Y
JPEG XL Issue: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
Webkit GTK: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/merge_requests/1622
Apple: https://x.com/jonsneyers/status/1665792517613256705
Windows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163181
PDF Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUPSfirHek&t=2284s
Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/522

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