@Zergling_man@SuperDicq I don't think I could ever willingly give up a tiling window manager at this point. how do people not just want to rip their hair out when juggling floating windows using a mouse? :blobwoozy:
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I really like XFCE and I use it on my X200. However on other devices that have high resolution screens I want to use Wayland which is not supported on XFCE so I use KDE instead.
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com If you use high resolution monitors and want to use scaling or if you have multiple monitors with different refresh rates or things like that I feel like the experience on Wayland is currently much better than Xorg, at least for KDE.
If you use scaling it automatically adjusts the size if you drag a window from one screen to another. You would have to do this manually if you relied on text size. Changing text size also does not change the size of buttons in GUI applications, your cursor and other things.
And yes having two monitors with different refresh rates is terrible in XORG. As it will always default to the refresh rate of the slowest monitor...
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com On my desktop computer I have two mointors, one is 75hz and the other is 144hz. If I boot into XORG both monitors would run at 75hz which is not ideal, I want to use the 144hz capabilities of my 144hz monitor.
Not because it is a feature that you would actually, but it's amazing to use it to show off when you're showing other people what your computer can do. And I think that has value, especially when trying to convince people to start using free software.
@SuperDicq KDE is the only thing keeping the sovl of linux alive at this point. it used to be COOL and shit and youd show off your compiz effects and say oh can winblows do this? and they got rid of it stuck in poeterringware everywhere and now its utter shit except if you run KDE to some level
@SuperDicq@straw Yeah, for me it's like the cool stuff you see in movies, which sometimes is literally just a Unix (Jurassic Park being a well known example).
@jeanjack@straw@SuperDicq Well gets kind of boring / annoying if you'd actually daily drive with it. I used compiz quite few times between 2008~2012 but I wouldn't switch of workspaces as frequently as like now.
And I guess some people would rather have devs be entirely productive rather than make sort of easter eggs. That's not really me though, easter eggs are fun both for users and devs.
@lanodan@SuperDicq@jeanjack to this day linux mint mate and xfce still ship with compiz and i think it's definitely gives me more confidence in that project to recommend to new users it's not enabled by default but hey, it gives that underrated and important feeling of a system being not just usable but almost fun or interesting in a way, and i think that really helps drive adoption atleast when i find out of ordinary or playful feature like that that's how i feel, even since i would poke around 98 or xp as a kid and find little details like that