Well it was you who implied that a distro shipping the DE with wayland has to do extra testing that they don't do. I just replied stating that distros are testing and validating for wayland to be the default.

X works for me.

Good. No one is stopping you from using it.

Considering that Ubuntu, Fedora and any distro with Gnome or KDE as the default DE already come with Wayland as the default, it is clear they have been testing their own shit when it comes to Wayland and then shifting to Wayland by default.

Me too!

I am guessing that is because the internal displays in laptops are connected using an embedded DisplayPort(eDP) and not HDMI

Yeah I am aware that DisplayPort has adaptive sync support but my laptop hardware limits me to HDMI. Believe me I would much rather be using DisplayPort

Yeah I agree that HDMI sucks but unfortunately my Laptop doesn't have any Display Port and my USB-C port doesn't have display port alt mode.

I have never seen Freesync over HDMI work.

Is this your experience on all OSes or on Linux only¿? AMD does mention on their website that many displays support freesync over HDMI.

Odd. Can you share which application is it that you are trying to install. Maybe it doesn't create a desktop file hence the lack of an launcher in the app drawer¿?

Is this Pop_OS 22.04¿?

If so there is a tool called eddy pre-installed to handle .deb file installs. All you have to do is double click on the file.

So is the windows scheduler to blame for the frankly poor results seen on windows. Like there were several instances where it was slower than the 7700x in the test suite used by Hardware Unboxed and Gamers Nexus but clearly that is not the case in Linux.

I think it is the fact the lcd phone screens have poor black levels and hence dark greys look the same as black. Hell even on my phone, it is not possible to notice. Only when I saw it on an OLED did I know that it wasn't pure black

Did you even read the article¿? She is pursuing PhD and is leaving to concentrate on that. She knows she won't be able juggle both her studies and her responsibility as a director so she is stepping down which I think is the responsible thing to do.

This just keeps on getting better and better. Thanks!

Please add the version of Firefox to the post so others can be better informed

I think evince will be eventually dropped by GNOME but there is time for that. While papers is porting things to GTK4 and adding some great features, it still has a long way to go in performance and optimisation. Currently it is more than twice as slow to open a pdf when compared to evince. Also scrolling performance is not optimised as it will stop mid scroll for things to render. Well it is only a new project so hopefully all this will be fixed. I am still using papers so that I can report any bugs that I run into

Hmm. Maybe gnome is not correctly using hardware acceleration in your machine¿? In my experience, gnome is perhaps the smoothest DE though it is heavier in resource usage than XFCE, MATE, etc. It does stutter and drop frames when the system is seeing very heavy resource usage.

Edit : when I am using the powersaver settings given by power-profiles-daemon, gnome does stutter a little. This corresponds to amd-pstate being active with the scaling governor set to powersave and the energy vs performance hint set to save power.

The animations and performance are already very smooth. In fact I feel the performance is better than what you get with windows and the animations are smoother as well

Thanks I will look into it.

I am on a immutable version of fedora(ublue-main) to be precise. Will the appimages work normally¿? I haven't tried running an appimage since moving to using immutable distros

Still I am finding it difficult to believe that just being battery aware has taken battery usage from 50℅ per hour to 1.4℅ per hour

No I am still working on this. Thanks for the advice. I was having trouble with hdparm because I didn't have enough information about with sectors are bad. Was trying to use ddrescue to make a map. Thanks for the resources

I think there is misunderstanding because of my phrasing. i dont want to recover data from the drive. Instead i want to repair the drive to use for low priority external storage.