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I think WSL is overrated.

I haven't used Windows for years but it was forced upon me by my new employer.

Overall I'm not impressed, at least when compared to a full native Gnome experience.

Not sure how people are managing, any filesystem operation (on C: for e.g.) takes forever, also GUI apps feel sluggish and heat the laptop.

Try Poco F1, almost everything works, at least as a phone.

> Why should they hire someone from US and not someone somewhere else where the pay is lower?

Good point, so far so good but we'll see as time goes.

> I spend 15 minutes walking in a park.

> Yes, spending hours in a car is not the best choice.

> One should ask themselves why they chose to sign a contract with a company hours away by car in the first place.

Good for you, realisticly not many people are that fortunate to find a nearby opportunity.

15 mins walk takes me nowhere, but remote work opens endless opportunities for me.

Not always, mine's locked.

Poco F1, I'm sure newer ones have it too.

I don't think they stopped, my Pixel 3 XL is locked also in the same manner.

Yes, along XINPUT2 for improved scrolling.

Interesting!

What's your monitor like? Sometimes I suspect it's because of my 4K monitor (with 1.5x scaling), that's a lot of pixels to shuffle, especially if the rendering code/pipeline is not optimised[0].

Testing my setup with a 1080p/75hz monitor[1], it's crazy fast and responsive, but mouse acceleration curve (and scroll), not speed, is still weird.

[0]See Ubuntu pushing for triple buffering for example, and other optimisation work on the past.

[1]Apparently that causes huge speedup, as it affects frame scheduling, according to one GUADEC talk by a Mutter dev.

I should've been more clear, Firefox is just an example, my problem is the mouse pointer being affected by heavy load of any kind on the GPU/UI thread.

As coldblues said, it's probably Mutter not having an independent thread for the mouse pointer, X11's pointer handling is independent from Mutter/KWin it seems.

See the demo here to know exactly what I'm talking about: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1241

Firefox was just an example, anything that's heavy on the GPU yields the same problem, and yes I did have the right knobs enabled on Firefox and can confirm that HW was indeed working.

Recently however I had to disable it, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1759947

Yes indeed, I believe you are referring to this WIP: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1241

There is a super nice demo there that sheds light into what I'm trying to convey.

I've used Gnome on Wayland since first available on Fedora, that's until two days a go! What happened you might ask? Well, I had enough of slow performance, with every release I'm thinking it'll improve, it did but at slow pace.

It's beautiful, and I like the UX, but it's lacking underneath, go ahead and play a 4k clip on Wayland enabled Firefox then move the mouse pointer, it stutters like crazy.

The mouse movements/scrolling in general doesn't feel natural at all, it has some kind of weird acceleration curve, scroll on Wayland enabled Firefox for example and compare that to Firefox under X11, day and night difference, under X11 it's MacOS like smoothness.

For some weird reason, switching to X11 fixes the performance, responsiveness and mouse scrolling/acceleration/movement accuracy, without doing a thing.

Sadly, because of the above and the fact that Gnome 42 no longer does fractional scaling under X11, I had to leave Gnome behind, I'm now on Fedora 36 KDE which I'm liking so far.

* My machine (3900x/rx5500/4k monitor/mx master 3) felt very slow sometimes to the point I was going to get rid of Linux all together and go MacOS or Windows (I dislike both).

* Thanks everyone for the continued work on Desktop GNU/Linux, inc Gnome and Wayland guys.

Any good browser, other than Firefox, has good support for Wayland, and does away with Manifest V3 (or whatever it's called)?

>3MP Sony IMX258 main camera

It's 13MP, I freaked out at first!

The first iPhone had a slower SoC, yet it felt way faster. I think there is room for improvement on the software side to make things faster.