KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics
… Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. …
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More videosKDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS
… Plasma 6 has matured quite well with Wayland in recent releases and prior benchmarks at Phoronix have already shown the Wayland session with KDE Plasma being able to match or often outperform that of the X11 session. …
KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04
… Today's testing is looking at the performance of GNOME 50 on Wayland up against KDE Plasma 6.6 with both its X11 and Wayland sessions. …
Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded
… Denial's lead developer wrote into Phoronix and explained its design as: "Denial does not run Flutter as an application on top of another compositor: it embeds the Flutter Engine directly, while a Rust and Smithay compositor handles Wayland protocol state, input, DMA-BUFs, DRM/KMS presentation and … …
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes
… Plasma 6.7 X11/Wayland benchmarks are coming up soon on Phoronix as a last look before the X11 session removal in Plasma 6.8. …
Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI
… In a message to Phoronix, the sole developer working on this project with Claude explains its technical stack as: "- Its own Wayland compositor, written in C, implementing xdg-shell, linux-dmabuf zero-copy import , viewporter, fractional-scale-v1, pointer-constraints, relative-pointer, text-input-v… …
Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features
… YSERVER developer Jos Dehaes wrote into Phoronix to share some of the recent features that landed in recent weeks, including FreeBSD support, Xinerama extension support, direct mode VT switching, display hotplug support, and more: - FreeBSD support — tested on GhostBSD - musl / Alpine builds workin… …
Wine's Wayland driver just fixed the mouse control issue plaguing FPS games on Linux
… The fix will land with Wine 11.9; Wayland compositors KWin, Mutter, and wlroots already support the new API. …
Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon
… In a message to Phoronix, the recent YSERVER enhancements in full include: "- starty launcher startx-style: display number picking, MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1, session teardown - man pages and other packaging improvements - GLX pbuffers, backed by a real GPU pixmap - Chrome and Steam now get GPU accelerati…
Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"
… Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100 Mir…