KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol
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Man I picked the best time to take a serious shot at daily driving desktop linux. Most of what I want just works and new stuff is always just around the corner. Just got NTsync on my preferred kernel, now wayland session restore is coming.
The last time I tried a linux system for a daily driver was over 10 years ago. At the time everything felt rough, unstable, unsupported, and gaming in particular was nonexistent.
Set up a CachyOS dual boot back in February, think I booted up Windows 3 times at most since then (and have since sorted out the issues that I had to do that for in the first place).
I still can't seriously recommend the switch to less tech savvy folks (try putting grandma on Mint and see what happens lmao), but we're definitely finally getting there after all these years.
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I read the blog post and am still confused as to what this is. It's something I never used in X11 (if X11 supported it), therefore it's not possible for me to miss it.
Is this the "restart all applications you were running when you restart your computer" feature? Was it broken in Wayland? If so, why? I thought the desktop environment would take care of starting the processes, placing the windows, and so on.
Not entirely sure what the before and after of this are. The blog post and article are written as if people know what this feature is.
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The last time I tried a linux system for a daily driver was over 10 years ago. At the time everything felt rough, unstable, unsupported, and gaming in particular was nonexistent.
Set up a CachyOS dual boot back in February, think I booted up Windows 3 times at most since then (and have since sorted out the issues that I had to do that for in the first place).
I still can't seriously recommend the switch to less tech savvy folks (try putting grandma on Mint and see what happens lmao), but we're definitely finally getting there after all these years.
I actually put my grandma on Zorin OS and, well, what happened is that she is using her PC less now lol. But she can get stuff done usually.
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The last time I tried a linux system for a daily driver was over 10 years ago. At the time everything felt rough, unstable, unsupported, and gaming in particular was nonexistent.
Set up a CachyOS dual boot back in February, think I booted up Windows 3 times at most since then (and have since sorted out the issues that I had to do that for in the first place).
I still can't seriously recommend the switch to less tech savvy folks (try putting grandma on Mint and see what happens lmao), but we're definitely finally getting there after all these years.
Setup Mint for grandma, and had to do it again recently as she had bought a new computer and found Windows annoying and unintuitive.
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System shared this topic
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I read the blog post and am still confused as to what this is. It's something I never used in X11 (if X11 supported it), therefore it's not possible for me to miss it.
Is this the "restart all applications you were running when you restart your computer" feature? Was it broken in Wayland? If so, why? I thought the desktop environment would take care of starting the processes, placing the windows, and so on.
Not entirely sure what the before and after of this are. The blog post and article are written as if people know what this feature is.
In X11, you've used this if you've ever seen the panels disappear and reappear or you used something like i3's reload/restart commands (I'm sure other tiling window managers have similar)
Since windows are handled in the X11 server, your window manager can reset without destroying the windows
In Wayland, your window manager also owns the open windows, so if it resets, you lose all your open programs
This allows the Wayland window manager to restart without every graphical program being killed, same as people are used to in X11
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Setup Mint for grandma, and had to do it again recently as she had bought a new computer and found Windows annoying and unintuitive.
Fair, I stand corrected lmao
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I read the blog post and am still confused as to what this is. It's something I never used in X11 (if X11 supported it), therefore it's not possible for me to miss it.
Is this the "restart all applications you were running when you restart your computer" feature? Was it broken in Wayland? If so, why? I thought the desktop environment would take care of starting the processes, placing the windows, and so on.
Not entirely sure what the before and after of this are. The blog post and article are written as if people know what this feature is.
Apps can still start at the current state. But apps remembering where it was or what page it was and its window positioning does not get remembered. I guess that's changing
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Man I picked the best time to take a serious shot at daily driving desktop linux. Most of what I want just works and new stuff is always just around the corner. Just got NTsync on my preferred kernel, now wayland session restore is coming.
been dailing it for almost 10 years now, i think.
the speed in wich its progressing is impressive.
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Apps can still start at the current state. But apps remembering where it was or what page it was and its window positioning does not get remembered. I guess that's changing
Interesting. But what's the Wayland protocol have to do with it? Where does that come in?
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Interesting. But what's the Wayland protocol have to do with it? Where does that come in?
Atleast the window positioning and stuff might have to do with wayland, i don't know the rest of the story
