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  • Very much pro-Wayland in my case.

    Just saying that certain CEF/Electron apps (especially those running on older Chromium version) are what is causing certain Wayland specific issues, hence my issue is on the application side (Steam, Spotify etc.), not on Wayland’s side… My bad for the badly worded post which made it seem like the classical “Wayland bad!” posts.

    I haven’t touched X11/Xorg in years, nor am I planning on reverting back to it anytime.



  • Why have a consistent Wayland experience when each application can run it’s own Electron version with varying degrees of enforced Wayland flags, and/or such an outdated Chromium version Wayland is just jank.

    Edit:

    Was trying to say that most of these CEF/Electron applications all need their own separate Wayland specific (Chromium) flags to have better Wayland support/integration. And the older Electron applications typically use an older Chromium as base, having even worse Wayland support… Was not trying to make this a “Wayland bad!” kind of post.

    TL;DR: Electron applications have wildly varying level of Wayland support/integration, don’t have any Wayland issues other than specific CEF/Electron apps!








  • In general I was thinking; If you keep your steam library to a seperate partition you can easily mount that in the same matter as you would now, making the Steam migration very easy, while making your root and home partition(s) fresh otherwise

    I’m not sure about migrating a single game, Steam is keeping a database (VDF-something if I recall correctly) of what you have installed, so it might get a bit confused if it suddenly only finds a single game.

    If you have sufficient space on your drive(s) you could:

    1. Create a new partition
    2. Copy over all of Steam related files
    3. Move your home/.steam folder to a backup folder
    4. Mount your new partition on your Kubuntu install
    5. If that works, you can keep that partition on your CachyOS install

    I think this blog covers the topic

    EDIT: ArchWiki on sharing drive with Windows




  • FYI:

    the default, one of AMDVLK and RADV

    I think that AMDVLK is shipping RADV per default now, so you might as well use RADV (for gaming, there might be other differences in OpenCL etc.), see Github/AMDVLK for more information;

    In a move to streamline development and strengthen our commitment to the open-source community, AMD is unifying its Linux Vulkan driver strategy and has decided to discontinue the AMDVLK open-source project, throwing our full support behind the RADV driver as the officially supported open-source Vulkan driver for Radeon™ graphics adapters.