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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • To be honest, I switched to Wayland years ago precisely because of the better perceived input/cursor experience.

    Change my mind, but having an average of half a frame input latency is much preferred when in return I gain that the cursor position on the screen actually aligns with all the other content displayed.

    Plus, I’m very sensitive to tearing, so whenever it happens I get the impression that there was a huge rendering error.

    Well and on the note that the cursor might visibly stutter, sure. But it’s a bit misleading. A game pinning the GPU to 100 % and running on 5 FPS doesn’t mean that your cursor will be rendered with 5 FPS. So far I’ve only noticed cursor lag/stutters in OOM situations, but neither under heavy GPU or CPU load.






  • I’m running such a setup!

    This is my nixos config, though feel free to ignore it, since it’s optmized for me and not others.

    How did I achieve your described setup?

    • nixos + flakes & colmena: Sync system config & updates
    • impermanence through btrfs snapshots: destroy all non-declarative state between reboots to avoid drift between systems
    • syncthing: synchronise ALL user files between systems (at least my server is always online to reduce sync inconsistencies from only having a single device active at the time)
    • rustic: hourly backups from all devices to the same repos, since this is deduplicated and my systems are mostly synchronised, I have a very clear record of my file histories