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Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Actual Linux Status

Hi all

I used to have a ArchLinux only configuration for several years, after then I had to switch to Microsoft Windows 10 for a while (about 2 years).

I'd like now to restart my linux experience, can someone recap the latest news about linux desktop status?

When I stopped using linux, I had a very lightweight system with autologin by  bash \ compiz as a standalone WM \ and I used different setup of gtk-applications or qt-applications according to my periodical tastes

In that period, it seemed that Wayland was going to replace in a short period the X system, but as far as I can see no particular news since then?

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: Actual Linux Status

The process of actually moving the entire world over from Xorg to wayland has taken ten years so far, and looks like it can take another ten years easily.

I assure you there is no "in a short period" here. Some things work, some things don't, and even the DEs which run natively on wayland still embed an X server to run Xorg-only software (of which there is a lot).

Was there anything you were asking about other than Wayland? Only, your thread title is a bit confusing.

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Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: Actual Linux Status

I agree on the title too generic..Wayland was only an example of something new that was coming in in linux desktop environments.. basically I understand that anything big is changed since 2\3 years now.. it's a bit sad.. thank you

thorstenhirsch

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Registered: 2005-08-03

Posts: 127

Re: Actual Linux Status

Well, we have free & fast 3D drivers for AMD GPUs in the kernel now. I think FreeSync is one of the last features that's missing, but it might be included in the kernel by the end of the year as well.

Last edited by thorstenhirsch (2018-07-01 21:06:12)