Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

There's no such thing as the Wayland standard, there are specifications that desktops choose to adopt but there's no requirement for anyone to actually adopt anything to be a Wayland compositor.

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Lyude Post: https://queer.party/@Lyude/114728689836547908
Wayland Protocols Table: https://absurdlysuspicious.github.io/wayland-protocols-table/

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#Wayland #Linux #LinuxDesktop #OpenSource #FOSS

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If you're gaming on Linux you're going to be swapping out versions of Proton GE and other compatibilities tools quite often and ProtonPlus is a very convenient tool to go and do so.

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ProtonPlus Repo: https://github.com/Vysp3r/ProtonPlus
ProtonUp Qt: https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt

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#Proton #LInuxGaming #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

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I refuse to believe that Javascript is a real language and this further cements it my thought, this language is absolutely insane and designed by crazy crazy, why in the world does the date class work like this.

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#Javascript #Programming #WebDeveloper #Developer

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I've seen a lot of people on Windows talk about Lossless Scaling as a reason they can't use Linux but now Lossless Scaling has come to Linux as lsfg-vk

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lsfg-vk Repo: https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk
Lossless Scaling Repo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/
Lossless Scaling Discord: discord.gg/losslessscaling

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#LosslessScaling #Vulkan #LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux #Gaming #Linux

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You probably know about KDE Plasma on your desktop and maybe even Plasma mobile, did you know that there was a Plasma Bigscreen as well. It's been dead for a very long time but a few devs have decided to revive it and have some big plans.

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Website: https://plasma-bigscreen.org/
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There's one feature that I always look for in a desktop, a feature called focus follows cursor and the way it specifically works immediately tells me if I'll like an environment

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#Linux #LinuxDesktop #OpenSource #FOSS #Wayland

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We're slowly moving into a world where people are growing up with AI tools and devs are more encourage to use them every day and this is going to lead to a problem with a lack of senior engineers

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There are countless window manager option available on X11 but when you look at the Wayland compositor space there's a lot less options available but that doesn't mean there aren't good ones to choose from.

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Labwc: https://github.com/labwc/labwc
Wayfire: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire
Sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway
SwayFX: https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx
Hyprland: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland
Qtile: https://github.com/qtile/qtile
MiracleWM: https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm
Niri: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

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==========Time Stamps==========
0:00 Intro
1:55 Labwc
4:03 Wayfire
5:44 Sway/SwayFX
8:16 Hyprland
11:19 Qtile
13:34 Miracle WM
15:16 Niri

#Wayland #Linux #WindowManager #OpenSource #FOSS

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If you're in KDE spaces often enough you'll here that it's buggy and outdated but there's never any explanation for why so I decided to do a bit of research into this problem by asking my audience why they have this perception.

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#KDE #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS

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There's been a lot of interesting things happening in the open source Nvidia space, most notably Nvidia developers actually working directly on these projects or in some cases actually being employed from working on the project.

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==========Resources==========
Patchset: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Co-maintainer: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/
Ben Skeggs: https://lore.kernel.org/nouveau/CAPM=9tyW=YuDQrRwrYK_ayuvEnp+9irTuze=MP-zkowm3CFJ9A@mail.gmail.com/T/

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