the better bedrock linux?
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Although a slew of Linux screen recording tools are available to KDE users, the user has to go out of your way to install them. But with Spectacle in KDE Plasma 5.27 they won’t need to as they’ll be able to record their entire workspace, screen, or individual app out-of-the-box.
The ‘catch’ (if it can be called that) is that the new screen recording functionality is only present in a KDE Plasma Wayland session. When logged in a a regular Xorg session the screenshot functionality is not present. This is because it uses Wayland-specific features.
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With recent NVIDIA's proprietary driver updates continuing to refine their Wayland support, the open-source AMDGPU Linux graphics drivers continuing to be enhanced, and work on the GNOME desktop with Mutter compositor continuing to advance, today's benchmarking article is looking at how the GNOME session under X.Org and Wayland for (X)Wayland is performing across various Linux games. It's been a while since I last ran a X.Org vs. (X)Wayland Linux gaming comparison so today's article is a fresh look from Ubuntu 22.10 while moving to the very latest graphics drivers and newest Steam Play Experimental state.
Wait.. Xorg is as fast as Wayland. I thought Wayland is suposed to be faster..?
Wayland support is possible thanks to a new libxfce4windowing library and a couple of components were already ported.
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It is !!! according to our marketing department !
( i don’t really have a bone in this fight and have been using wayland for years now )
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Oh yeah, neither do I.
I guess it is not fully supported on Plasma yet so I am going to skip it for now.
been using it since plasma 5.20 or 5.21 or so … never went back to xorg ( this isn’t to say it has been a perfect journey ) but few last versions has been pretty non issue. Its more work to be sure that every other app is running on wayland instead of xwayland mode, than kwin_wayland itself.
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A new Burn-My-Windows effect has been released! This new effect combines the Glitch and the TV Effect into one. Credits go to Kurt Wilson for this idea! In addition, the settings dialogs of all Burn-My-Windows effects are now translatable (this requires at least KWin 5.27 which is about to be released in a couple of days).
- Get it for KDE: https://www.pling.com/p/1982142/
- Get it for GNOME: Burn My Windows - GNOME Shell Extensions
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My life cycle on the Distros now is so that I try to choose the right Distro and just do simple and repeatable configs. I just can't ask for much more.. I would test Wayland but I am afraid of messing up my system. 
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The app should “just work” with most Linux setups, regardless of the audio stack or desktop environment. I tested it on Ubuntu 22.10, which uses GNOME Shell and PipeWire.
I will mention that that the app is relatively resource intensive. On my fairly modest Linux laptop running Cavalier at the same time as audio and other apps did result in some performance issues, including heat and audio clipping. On powerful PCs it’s unlikely to be an issue.
With being late in the cycle the material is mostly of different fixes -- including some Radeon RX 7000 series "RDNA3" (GFX11) fixes -- but also a new feature in that AMD Radeon GPU power savings with S0ix even when the system BIOS support is lacking.
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A rust-powered web engine could do wonders and be superior to Blink or Gecko-based alternatives.
Furthermore, another open-source alternative to something we use almost daily shouldn't be a bad thing and will let us have many options.
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Among the key changes to get excited about are AV1 hardware decoding across Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD GPUs. FFmpeg 6.0 will also bring multi-threading support to the FFmpeg command-line, RISC-V architecture optimizations, API changes, and more.
More details on the latest X.Org security advisory via the xorg mailing list. The X Input security fix is available via this tiny patch. As a result of today's security disclosure, X.Org Server 21.1.7 has been released with this fix. There is also a handful of other fixes in X.Org Server 21.1.7: namely just two DIX fixes and then a handful of Apple macOS XQuartz patches.
It's been ten years already since a security researcher commented that the X.Org Server codebase security is "worse than it looks" and it continues to be the source of new security vulnerabilities for this still commonly used component to the Linux desktop.
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Given the three anniversary of the Threadripper 3990X launch and the System76 Thelio Workstation still holding up very well after all this time of routine performance benchmarking, I wanted to run a fresh comparison for how well that 64-core HEDT Zen 2 system performs with the very latest Linux software compared to the Pop!_OS / Ubuntu 20.04 LTS state in early 2020.
At the moment Vulkan Video is (sadly) just focused on H.264 and H.265 but VP9 and AV1 extensions are expected to be published this year. Airlie has even worked on experimental AV1 decode support via a Mesa vendor extension.
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