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[–] user@lemmy.one 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I ❤️ xfce, dying for Wayland. Wish I knew how to ninja together xfce Wayland. As most apps are now compatible.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

please no, XFCE is my last refuge for machines too old to support Wayland

[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

you understand that you can still use x11 with KDE or gnome right?

[–] theshatterstone54 4 points 1 week ago

They're not killing X11 support, don't worry. They're just expanding to Wayland support.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am running Wayland on my 2013 MacBook Air. Joe old is your hardware?

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Sustolic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If I am not mistaken the GTS 450 should be more than powerful enough especially by Linux standards.

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

A lot of Wayland compositors have a GLES 2.0 renderer which should be supported by ancient GPUs. If you try Vulkan based compositors you might be out of luck.

[–] HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago

I hope there are a few dank wallpapers for the meme

[–] theshatterstone54 2 points 1 week ago

IIRC, they expect to have it released in the first half of December if there are no issues or delays.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Wanted to join the wallpaper contest but it has to be only and only through a Gitlab account, and the requeriments are rather limiting - and, specially, not a fan of contests that are decided by thumbs-up (or heart emojis, like in this case)

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Wait but it hasn't been 2 years yet!

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 week ago

did they release a changelog?