wlroots is a library that can be used to implement a compositor like KWin or mutter (GNOME). In practice wlroots is used in Sway, Hyprland, river, and more.
What wlroots-based compositors, KWin, and mutter share is that they implement a similar set of the display protocol Wayland. E.g. KWin and Sway implement the Wayland extension wlr_layer_shell
The big advantage for me is that lact runs as a (systemd) daemon. This is more convenient for me than having to autostart CoreCtrl.
A disadvantage of the daemon is that it can’t be packaged on flathub.
Enable and start the service (otherwise you won’t be able to change any settings): sudo systemctl enable --now lactd
You can now use the GUI to change settings and view information.
How would you define “knowing” and “using” linux? Many people here don’t use Linux professionally and only on the desktop, so they probably aren’t too familiar with all the features of different cli programs.
Reading a blog post is more accessible than reading a man page. I didn’t know cd -, so reading the post was worth it I’d say.
The most notable changes are probably HDR and color management, but most people can’t take advantage of it anyway. Although the list of changes includes many quality of life improvements like enabling tap to click by default.
I was sure I read that GTK wants to support true fractional scaling in GTK 5, but I can’t find a source to it. So it was probably just speculation. As far as I understand it, it would require big changes to GTK because everything is build with integer scaling in mind.
At least GTK 4 already has support for this fractional scaling protocol.
The first part is about the meme. Arch has it’s (dis-)advantages depending on the use case.
I wrote the second part because OP mentioned they’ve found the meme “at deltachat”, which is a email-based messenger I use. It’s a topic adjacent to linux as it’s open source software with linux support.
We currently support Turing (RTX 20XX and GTX 16XX) and later GPUs. We plan to eventually support hardware as far back as Kepler (GeForce 600 and 700 series) but those are currently poorly tested at best and missing a few essential features.
NVK is a Vulkan driver while nouveau is an OpenGL driver. If I understand correctly there’s also a nouveau kernel module which interfaces with the userspace nouveau, but NVK might use another API. [1]