X11 runs the whole desktop on the lowest refresh rate and Wayland can run each monitor at a different refresh rate

The latency is insanely low on Pipewire, which is important for rythm games like osu!, that’s why I originally switched to it. It’s also really cool how it’s compatible with all other audio backends as well.

I hope GTK and GNOME (or is GTK part of GNOME?) adopt this, I didn’t even know just how bad the inefficiency with todays cursors is. Having a single svg for each cursor and rendering it server-side makes so much more sense.

Did someone already open an issue for this?

I think this makes sense. I still need X11 for VR because GNOME still doesn’t have display leasing on Wayland but once that gets implemented I won’t be using X11 anymore. I think most people don’t need X11 anymore either. For people like me who still need it for specific things, it can just be installed again manually.

You could install it without a desktop and then manually install only the packages for Plasma with Wayland but idk if that’a really worth the effort

If you’re interested in KDE in particular, you should also check out Nicco Loves Linux. He’s one of the KDE developers and makes a lot of videos about it.

This is very interesting, I think I’ll try that out. I wanted to give GIMP a real try at some point anyway.

It’s just in case you have issues with the headset not getting detected, the cable can become a little loose and you might need to press it into where it connects to the headset

My bad, for some reason I thought you were using Jellyfin on the Pi but you’re actually using Kodi so that makes sense

They’re probably going to install it through Google Play tho (if it’s available there) so it’d be pretty easy, and probably automatic, to update it

Should probably mention that premium is only 10 bucks a year. I also don’t just pay for the feature itself but also to support Bitwarden, it’s completely free and open source after all.

Someone should definitely report this to both Lutris and Heroic so it can be fixed

SteamVR has weird issues like that sometimes but restarting it or logging out and back in has always fixed it for me (aside from that one time I had to replace the headset cable)

I use a Valve Index on GNOME as well, so here’s a few things:

• VR doesn’t work yet on GNOME Wayland, you need to select GNOME on Xorg when logging in
• Sometimes the LEDs are red and the headset doesn’t get detected, just unplug the cable and plug it back in
• You might also need to press on the cable where it connects on the headset sometimes, it can become a little loose
• Use CoreCTRL to manually set the GPU performance profile to high, it doesn’t do that automatically for some reason and there’s a huge performance difference
• If you have the issue that moving your head makes it look like the image is jumping back and forth, go into the per-application video settings of the game from SteamVRs menu and turn on Legacy reprojection
  • This only happens when I have very low FPS, the CoreCTRL thing fixed it for me without having to use this option
• There’s an older SteamVR version for Linux you can select as a beta option for SteamVR in Steam but I’d actually not recommend using it, it only works when games use Proton 5 and there are newer games that don’t work with a Proton verison that old. A lot of the issues the regular SteamVR version had are fixed now and it works pretty well for me.

Are you trying to play the video on the Pi itself? Aren’t you using Jellyfin to watch it on other devices?

You should look into Krita. Not a replacement for Photoshop but I find it more intuitive than GIMP, at least.

I think Piped just feels slower because of the web page, I’ve noticed that everything is a lot snappier when using LibreTube, especially playing videos. On LibreTube, when I click on a video, it instantly starts playing while I have to wait several seconds on the web page for it to start playing.

I thought that stuff like this couldn’t happen on Wayland by design but maybe that’s only true for keyboard inputs. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to help you but I hope that this information was at least useful to someone who knows more than me.

Are you using Xorg or Wayland?

It started getting popular years ago and that’s when me an my friends switched to it too (back when I didn’t know shit about privacy). You gotta keep in mind the alternatives back then were Skype, which was meant for 1 to 1 calls, had shit audio quality and issues all the time and TeamSpeak, which was complicated because you needed a server (we were kids, we only knew what a server was from Minecraft) and had a text chat that was only a small part of the bottom of the window that was full of connected and disconnected messages, so I actually didn’t even know you could write in that. TeamSpeak’s interface also isn’t exactly good-looking or very intuitive. Then came Discord, you could create a server for you and your friends for free, you saw who of your friends was online and playing what, you could see when someone was in a voice channel and could just join, you had multiple text chats where you could easily send a link or memes while playing and you could easily share your screen with the others. It was a major improvement over the other two. I know that it sucks from a privacy standpoint but there’s good reasons why people started using it.