TLDR: XFCE and Cinnamon devs are begging beginning to work on Wayland support.

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Is is possible to overclock Nvidia cards using Wayland or xwayland?

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No idea on the overclocking front I’m afraid.

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Wayland has been great on Debian stable after swapping to an AMD graphics card

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I’ve had good experiences with Wayland on nVidia too. KDE has a rock solid Wayland implementation.

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Keep in mind their time line is like 2 years.

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Oh so in about that time Wayland will finally be able to fulfill simple UX expectations like, say, global shortcuts?

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Is that satire? Wayland is pretty great, and there isn’t really a concept of “compatible app” as Xwayland handles that.

Obviously apps that perform X functions directly (clipboard managers, screen recorders, etc.) will need to be ported or rewritten, as it’s a brand new display manager, but that would be the case with any non-X platform.

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The “TLDR” is sub heading is completely misleading. Cinnamon devs see they have to move, that’s the reason. “Begging to work” on Wayland is not at all what the article says. Before you downvote, read it. Nothing in that article or the link to one dev’s blog says anything even remotely like that.

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Beginning* yep sorry!

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I suspect it’s just an autocorrect typo for “beginning to work”.

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I like that… I’ll take it. Thank you for putting it that way.

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How did Mint fuck up year-based version numbering? I did a fresh install on a laptop this year and briefly worried project had died.

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It’s not actually based on the year. There have been 21 other major releases at various intervals starting with 1.0 in 2006. It just happens to be close to the current year right now.

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