by mariusor on 3/31/21, 11:43 AM
by marcodiego on 3/31/21, 2:32 PM
This is very good. Not only because it illustrates the maturity of wayland, this is been done using pipewire. The last remaining pieces of the puzzle are finally being placed. A modern linux distro will give you on the desktop a good oomd, good video drivers, pipewire, wayland, GTK 4, GNOME 40, a modern kernel, compiler, dev-tools... and modern cross distro software through flatpak/snap/appimage. There are still things to improve and fix, but the desktop has never been so promising.
The sad thing: I've been hearing/saying basically this for decades.
by phone8675309 on 3/31/21, 1:12 PM
What's up with the recent Flatpack/Snap fetish? Doesn't anybody just get their software into a distro anymore?
Edit: EFF's recommendation for certbot, their ACME/LetsEncrypt client, is to use snap on a freaking server. Why?
by halz on 3/31/21, 1:35 PM
by jancsika on 3/31/21, 3:08 PM
Are there people on here who regularly scrape HN posts for data?
Because I'd love a list of user handles of people who-- before this day-- have written variations of, "Wayland-based systems have been totally ready for use for years now." And maybe a browser extension that greys out comments from those handles.
by jjice on 3/31/21, 1:15 PM
When I made the jul over to full time Linux last February,this is something iran into and was confused about. Wayland was the default on Ubuntu, and it worked great! Except for a lot of applications that just wouldn't load... After some reading, I moved to X, but I can't wait for the day Wayland is ready to go.
Will there ever be a good way to run things like dmenu on Wayland? I'm still a novice, but will all X programs need to be converted?
by infomax on 3/31/21, 1:02 PM
by rijoja on 3/31/21, 12:45 PM
Maybe a bit off topic but what is the status of wayland capture support anyway? Normally I used ffmpeg with x11 and that worked great. However due to the security model of wayland this doesn't seem nearly as easy to implement. I think they went with some kernel level grabbing support that needed root?
by yxhuvud on 3/31/21, 10:05 AM
Nice. I suppose mounting the output as a virtual camera isn't supported yet?
by merb on 3/31/21, 11:09 AM
maybe that will help microsoft teams to implement that functionality under linux.
by jhoechtl on 3/31/21, 12:46 PM
Totally unrelated but: The day I can wireless screencast my Linux Laptop to my home television I will lite a candle.
by gpm on 3/31/21, 12:48 PM
If I'm reading this right they support gnome, kde, and wlroots compositors, by sharing the protocols meant for screen sharing. Also they don't support capturing xwayland clients.
by roel_v on 3/31/21, 12:10 PM
Now all that is left is virtual audio output...