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  • Things are moving steadily towards Wayland because Wayland has been steadily improving. In some aspects, it’s currently better than X. Valve certainly thinks so because they use Wayland for the Gaming mode on their Steam Deck.

    Some people hate change enough that they’ll blind themselves to that being their core issue, and instead they’ll focus on the imperfect as their argument that things shouldn’t change.

    Screensavers aren’t anywhere near as important as they once were since display tech is different now, so if Wayland devs aren’t focusing on them, maybe it’s not such a big deal. X11 isn’t going to disappear overnight, so if you don’t want to use Wayland, then don’t!


  • Wayland does not support screen savers: it does not have any provision that allows screen savers to even exist in any meaningful way. If you value screen savers, that’s kind of a problem.

    Why doesn’t it? Well, I suppose the designers of Wayland have no joy in their cold, black hearts simply do not value screen savers.

    They go on to explain that the security model of Wayland is better than X in this regard, yet instead of writing code to improve what they see as deficiencies, they bitch and throw insults.

    This is not the way to effect change. Oh, you’re being ignored? Maybe try having more emotional maturity than a 12 year old.










  • EOS is probably fine. There are some distros that are better out of the box for Nvidia cards. You seem tech savvy, but if Linux is still relatively new to you, it might be a good idea to remove as much potential friction as possible.

    Nobara Linux would be a good choice even if you don’t have an Nvidia card. You can always theme / modify Nobara to look like EOS as well. Nobara is Fedora modified by Glorious Eggroll who also makes Proton-GE. I can often get games to run on my Steam Deck using Proton-GE when standard Proton won’t work.