NVK is great overall, for gaming eeeeh, no, sadly. I think it’s getting improvements for vulkan gaming

But 555 beta is already much better than 550 on wayland

Stremio uploads/seeds just when you’re watching the movie, and usually with a very small cache. On a 20gb movie maybe you seed 200-300mb, which isn’t anything substantial

There was no sync at all in the last drivers, now we have good sync, it should be nice smooth experience once everything updates

There is if you intend to keep torrents alive.

Reading 100% feels better, seeing tiny icons/logos without it being a pixelated mess is also good, and video looks much crisper, same goes for videogames, and the performance hit from 1080 to 1440 isn’t bad at all.

Is your statement true? Probably

But if we set our standards to “enough”, there wouldn’t be any progress

Was the switch enough for couch gamers? Sure. Did valve want to progress further? They did.

Some will use the built in note editor, some the built in music player, some the built in video player, and now some will use matrix

Mint isn’t overly bloated, or even “bloated”, these apps are useful for a decent part of the demographic, and having them preinstalled lowers the friction a new user feels when installing a new OS

Gnome isn’t bad, at all. The team has caused controversy and made mistakes, but gnome’s experience is great.

Talking about ubuntu, snaps suck, and it is more “bloated” than what you’d expect, but still, ubuntu isn’t half bad. Is mint better for what the ubuntu audience wants? Yes. Does ubuntu still work well? Yes

And ubuntu server rocks

Ubuntu 100%, if you count how many distros are ubuntu based (and collaterally debian based), but I believe it is the most used one even if you only count official ubuntu releases

Maybe arch would be quite high, if you count the steamdeck as desktop (maybe), and the big increase on arch users in the past couple of years (wen’t from being rare to 1 in 3 users saying “I use arch btw”)

Fedora 40 with kde plasma 6 dropped a day or two ago, and they did remove x11, you have to get it from the repo in case you want it, otherwise, it only comes and is planned for wayland, which I believe is great, for once it does seem like the year of wayland

Your work app may be electron based (which is a bit too common nowadays), and until they update to electron 29, wayland won’t probably work.

(or until they add xwayland video bridge, but the former option is better than the latter.

I don’t know how you messed that up, usually the switch is as easy as it can be, and the issue comes when using it, for its lack of explicit sync, causing apps to flicker, and frame pacing in games to be plain bad

This is being fixed in the next two months thankfully

Edit: Taking about Nvidia wayland support here, AMD and Intel are great

I’ll invest in yourself, I have 1 euro, is that plenty for you sir?

Too much, just, too much

Recently in Spain a small pub/bar owner had been streaming all important football matches through piracy to avoid paying 400€/mo for something only a handful of people would be seeing in such remote place.

She was demanded, sent to court, and won. For piracy, southern Europe is crazy good.

May I add, I also use Symfonium, it’s the best one by far, but it isn’t open source as OP is asking.

That said, the Dev is a good guy, and the app has 1 month free trial (without asking for credit card or anything)

It’s 5,49 I believe, single payment. Totally worth it.

That works, but If you are okay with that experience, I encourage you even more to give libretube a try

It’s open source, and doesn’t collect user data, and works in my opinion better than firefox+ublock on android

On pc firefox+ublock is great, for now at least

You know what doesn’t suck?

• Freetube on PC
• Libretube on Android
• SmartTube on AndroidTV

I like revanced, but these are cooler :)

Until you hit a wall looking for some indie stuff and the only guy you find asks you for money lol.

But besides a couple of those, soulseek’s great, and usually people there try to go for quality, or at the very least will have the right metadata. If not, there’s a couple deezer downloaders on github that work really good, and an older one hosted in the internet archive I believe.

Is explicit sync a good enough solution to make wayland gaming with nvidia a reality(+ remove window flickering like some people claim it will)? It’s the last obstacle I find now trying to move my main pc to linux, and I don’t really want to use x11.

Pd. Lesson learned, next time I’ll get an AMD gpu.