Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Shocking speed difference, Ubuntu vs. Linux Mint, Snap vs. Flatpak Date: 21 Mar 2025 00:06:48 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <9xzCP.82997$f5K3.51155@fx36.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net eK3XkfRhse+JR3K9rnSglwlOFduHHzQDpP5GJZ7EE5QvsUaN2e Cancel-Lock: sha1:pcvXi2QVcRcKLcwZzVwcTenPxyI= sha256:ppFHfg6H1VaEb/UGn5hW/fEIPAVW98YQDn4apQWQ1Es= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 1737 On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:52:00 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: > I'm tempted to install it again on the damned MacBook Air 2017 just to > take a screenshot and show you that it said very clearly that it was > running on X11. Maybe Wayland doesn't support the Intel HD 6000 series? > Even the trackpad gestures I would usually rely on which work on Wayland > didn't work on Ubuntu. Besides, it was 24.04, not 22.04. It's entirely possible a 8 year old Macbook can't handle Wayland. > I just did a search and people were apparently reporting issues with > their Intel graphics and Wayland. Perhaps Canonical forced X11 for those > machines. We're really getting into special cases now but my Fedora box is Wayland and it runs fine on an Intel Xeon E3 GPU, but then its KDE and not GNOME.