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What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 42 points 3 years ago (17 children)

Basically competent support for hardware for laptops newer than 2014. Proper thunderbolt, displaylink, trackpad, fingerprint reader, facial rec support.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    tbf more often than not displaylink just sucks, no matter the OS.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    My company insists on buying these shitty Dell DisplayLink docking stations. They suck so hard they are just a stupid expensive 90W charger. Even OS X users hate them. The frustrating thing is, these things were supposed to allow us to plug our laptop in anywhere and get two working screens, keyboard and charging. The only bit that works reliably is the keyboard and mouse.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Yes however on windows and mac displaylink "sucks" on linux it is practically unusable. I do agree Dlink sucks, but modern laptops have no alternatives to speak of.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Really? I find displaylink awesome I alternatively use ChromeOS, Linux and windows with no issues even gameing on windows (lowers the FPS but fine for my abilities)

    Curious what HW you are using I have a couple of different Dell DL models

    Linux on displaylink was iffy but it has been great the last few years.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (7 children)

    trackpads work fine on Wayland or wirh xinput2

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I wish Wayland had support for multi-finger gestures. I know my System76 laptop's trackpad supports them on Windows, but Windows is trash. I use them all the time on my Mac, but I just use a mouse on Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (5 children)

    wdym, gnome and kde have 1:1 3/4 finger gestures and smooth scrolling OOTB.
    And it works GREAT!! much better then on win10!
    ONLY under Wayland though....
    if you're using x11, you won't get the gestures.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm using the latest Plasma on Wayland on Arch and NONE of those gestures work!!

    I am NOT using x11!!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    something must be broken then.
    thy work perfectly on both my 8 year old asus laptop and a new dell model from 2021

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I have a System76 Kudu from 2018. I won't buy anything from them again, honestly. It was overpriced for what it was, and the screen is awful. And it still has features that only work on Windows 10. Not at all what I expected from a company that claims to be Linux-first.

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