<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div>This was in my Mastodon feed today:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>https://youtu.be/argfZlPZKdY?feature=shared</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">I can't believe that this tablet still works...<div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org> </div><div>Date: 2023-10-26 10:14 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org> </div><div>Cc: Chris Irwin <chris@chrisirwin.ca> </div><div>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] New Linux PC Build Advice </div><div><br></div></div>On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:45:33AM -0400, Lucas Fryzek wrote:<br>>I believe the steamdeck only uses Wayland <br><br>I double checked, and you're right. "Game" mode on the steam deck is <br>native wayland. "Desktop" mode, which is just KDE, is still a native X <br>session.<br><br>I suspect the folks that wrote the articles I googled earlier didn't <br>bother checking game mode separately (since you can't as easily open a <br>terminal in game mode).<br><br>As for games on a wayland desktop, I think the biggest complaints I've <br>seen mentioned with wayland (some of these are GNOME-specific):<br><br>* Can't disable vsync (this matters more for online FPSes)<br><br>* No DRM Leasing (so VR doesn't work)<br><br>* Limited ability to alter input devices, since they're controlled by <br> the compositor exclusively with libinput+wayland.<br><br>-- <br>Chris Irwin<br><br>email: chris@chrisirwin.ca<br> xmpp: chris@chrisirwin.ca<br> web: https://chrisirwin.ca<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br>To unsubscribe, send an email to kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org<br>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br>kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org to contact a human being.<br></body></html>