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... but it's my most successful attempt at latte art so far. I also know the foam could be better, but I'm really chuffed about the progress I'm making and wanted to share it!

I was, until recently, under the impression that it wasn't even worth bothering with wayland if you had an Nvidia GPU - as I do (GTX 1070).

There was a recent post somewhere, however, where someone talked about their experiences with wayland on an Nvidia system. In my shock - I thought I'd give it a go. Here are my impressions and also some questions.

Firstly, I was amazed at how easy it was. I decided to go with labwc because I use and love openbox on xorg, so I thought I'd be comfortable there. I installed it and, well, it just worked. I was a little underwhelmed at the completely blank screen I saw, but then I realised that it was actually working when I right clicked and a (tiny) menu appeared offering me the choices of reconfiguring or exiting.

I was somewhat surprised to not have any kind of mouse cursor at all. This was fixed by adding WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 to ~/.config/labwc/environment. I'd like a better fix for this, but it seems to work for the moment.

Most of the apps I've tried run directly on wayland instead of XWayland - steam being the only exception so far. Steam seems to run well enough, though and the one game I've actually tried (Hollow Knight) ran, as far as I could tell in 5 minutes, perfectly.

I've since been messing around with various things like waybar and setting up the menu on my desktop and it seems to all be working well at the moment.

I used albert as my launcher on openbox, but that doesn't seem to work on wayland. I found a post about a guy who managed to get it to work, but it sounds like the performance simply wasn't worth the effort. So my first question: is there a launcher similar to albert that runs on Wayland? All my efforts to find something have so far come up blank. I mean, there are several options for launchers, but none as nice as albert that I've found yet… Fuzzel has potential, but it still doesn't look as good.

One of the main things I miss from openbox is the slit. As far as I can tell - it simply isn't supported on labwc or any other compositor I've been able to find - is that true? I can probably work around it using waybar modules or similar, but still…

I think that covers everything so far - I would certainly appreciate any tips/suggestions that any of you might have though!

Edit: After playing around in Wayland for more than a day now, I have to report that, unfortunately, Steam has unacceptable flickering/rendering issues. It only seems to affect some games, but it also affects the client. As far as I can tell, it's a known issue that doesn't have a fix or a usable workaround. sigh

This is something of a deal breaker for me - but, when it's fixed, at least I'll be ready for Wayland.

Also - for those suggesting I try Plasma. I appreciate the suggestion and screenshots do seem to show that it's beautiful, but I'm really a fan of the Openbox type aesthetic - which is why I've gone with labwc.

Edit #2: Also VCVRack flickers a lot as well - which, now that I think of it, is the only other app I've tried (I think) that runs on XWayland...

Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this.

I have a reasonably sized digital comic book collection - mostly bought through Comixology before they were taken over by Amazon. It was easy then to remove the DRM and have a free version of the books in my collection. Since you now have to go through Amazon it's not so easy.

I figured the easiest way to get the remaining books that I never got round to downloading would be to pirate them - I assume via torrenting or Usenet. It's been a long time since I've used either and, for all I know, there's a better way.

The fact is, though, I can't find very much content out there, but surely I'm not the only one who wants to download this kind of content?

So my question is - What's the best method for downloading comic books and where is the best online location for finding them?

I'm looking for recommendations for a dotfile manager - there are so many out there I've got a bit of options paralysis!

I'd like a system that can backup all my dotfiles - with version management - and, if I nuked my home directory, could restore them all for me with a simple command.

Thanks in advance for you suggestions!

Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they've been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving...