Re: Shocking speed difference, Ubuntu vs. Linux Mint, Snap vs. Flatpak

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:52:00 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

I'm tempted to install it again on the damned MacBook Air 2017 just to
take a screenshot and show you that it said very clearly that it was
running on X11. Maybe Wayland doesn't support the Intel HD 6000 series?
Even the trackpad gestures I would usually rely on which work on Wayland
didn't work on Ubuntu. Besides, it was 24.04, not 22.04.

It's entirely possible a 8 year old Macbook can't handle Wayland.

I just did a search and people were apparently reporting issues with
their Intel graphics and Wayland. Perhaps Canonical forced X11 for those
machines.

We're really getting into special cases now but my Fedora box is Wayland
and it runs fine on an Intel Xeon E3 GPU, but then its KDE and not GNOME.