Hi guys, first of all congratulations on the new release. I saw this on the changelog "Dual-GPU support in Budgie Menu when launching applications" , does solus support hybrid mode on a amd integrated gpu / nvidia gpu ?

Thanks!

Harvey

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Thanks for providing that quote. I've shot off a polite e-mail to distrowatch from my @getsol.us address to ask how we might go about having Solus listed as Active again, along with links to the release blog post, the download page and the Release RSS feed.

Here's hoping it gets updated soon-ish.

    brent yeah, I've never cared for it outside of MXLinux. I hope the Solus implementation of XFCE is as polished and nice as that.

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        Brucehankins If I remember correctly distros like Xubuntu have partially used MATE apps at least in the past, so I'm eager to see what decisions will be made regarding the XFCE implementation.

          Thanks to you for that great work.Long live the king Solus...

          Brucehankins yeah, I've never cared for it outside of MXLinux. I hope the Solus implementation of XFCE is as polished and nice as that.

          I expect it will be. it's such an oddly fitting place (solus) for this distro. I look forward to it.

            I am so happy that the new Isos are out. Thank you all so much!
            The deprecation of Mate comes somehow unexpected, but I welcome it. Can`t put it in words, but Mate always feels just strange and not right to me. My personal preference would have been to replace Mate with Cinnamon, but I trust the judgement of the team. Am curious to see where things are going.

              Staudey
              No worry : I agree with you!
              My 2 cents:
              Best installer as of today, in my opinion : popOS. Flexible, simple, efficient, 2 stages approach.
              Calamares : reputable for the user, but complex for the builder as I have understood.

              Have a nice week-end!

                Sebastian My personal preference would have been to replace Mate with Cinnamon, but I trust the judgement of the team.

                my personal choice too. it's wouldve come with its own set of obstacles no doubt.

                  elfprince
                  https://blog.buddiesofbudgie.org/wayland/

                  ^^ nothing discussed performance that I could see, if that's what you are asking. just that the industry is moving away from x11. See bolded sections called RHEL and MUTTER--they are very eye-opening about that aspect of moving away from it.
                  That's my take away. Others no doubt know more than I when it comes to performance.

                      TraceyC Solus team: genuine heroes! Many thanks for bringing this wonderful OS to life again!

                        JoshStrobl Thanks for the clarification, Josh. I dont know nothing about these technical aspects, thats why I fully trust the people who do know all these things (the team) to take the right decisions. It`s just that I like the way Cinnamon looks and behaves. But I understand that there are other things to consider than just the eye candy.

                          brent All I see is that people (Linux distros) are deciding to follow other people (RHEL). I do no see a well stated reason. X11 worked all this time without problems. I may be ignorant on this issue, but I've used X11 for decades, and don't see a big, obvious and glaring problem, as far as users are concerned.

                          Is this like Apple developers keep changing the UI on the iPhones to make them more complicated? 😆

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                              elfprince What are the advantages of using Wayland vs X11 ecosystem?

                              I notice differences when I'm working with VMs. With X11, a VM window will slowly shrink by resizing itself downward in tiny steps. If I don't intercede, it will eventually almost close, right down to the caption bar. It's something you'd probably need to see happen in order to appreciate it. With a Wayland host, the VM window is stable, and doesn't try to downsize itself to nothing.

                              And in Plasma, which supports fractional scaling, each mouse click to increase the scaling in X11 increases it by 6.25%, which is said to reduce the chance of creating screen artifacts. In Wayland, each click increases it by 5%. I'm assuming the end result is similar, but it is a difference.

                              In practice, I always just click twice to make my 1920x1080 laptop screen more usable. So with X11, that gives me 112.5% scaling, and in Wayland, it gives me 110% scaling. I don't really notice a difference, and I never notice any artifacts.