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[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

xorg is a old implementation of x11, which is basically abandon-ware right now. No one is adding feature to it, testing it, or fixing security vulnerabilities. It also lack some common-sense security feature: for example every program can get every input (keyboard and cursor location) without root, so a key logger is trivial to implement in xorg.

Wayland is newer, with more features (reasonable multi-monitor support, one-to-one gestures, etc). But many application framework and hardware have poor support for it, because it is slightly newer (developed on 2008, so not that new any more). Notably, electron and nvidia are typically the worst offender, like everything on linux, but both has come a long way.

I have wayland on my laptop, since one-to-one gesture is a must for me, and I present quite often using that laptop. My desktop is on xorg, since I have a nvidia GPU and use quite a lot of electron app.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

What's are one-to-one gestures?

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

It's like scrolling on your phone, where the content on your screen follows exactly your fingers movements. On Wayland you can do the same with a trackpad, like for example when scrolling, switching workspaces or invoking the activities overview. It feels much nicer, more immediate and more natural than on X.org, where gestures are just triggering a shortcut after a set distance.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I would add, even my last Windows machine surface laptop 2 with latest windows 11 don't have this feature. it is so awkward, I just stopped using gesture all together.

So it is pretty great linux has that.

[-] avapa@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

AMD GPU + KDE Plasma with Wayland finally gets me close enough to the smoothness of Windows, especially the per-display settings for fractional scaling and high refresh rate were sorely lacking on Linux. It’s not perfect yet (and neither is Windows’ implementation) but it improved the Linux desktop experience a ton!

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