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Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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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.
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.