For application developers, you can use the 49beta branch of the flatpak runtimes, which is available on Flathub beta.
Also, an installer image is available for testing and porting extensions.
This installer image is meant to be installed in a virtual machine with EFI support (such as the GNOME Boxes version available on Flathub). You can also try to install it on bare metal.
Thanks to everyone involved and please give it a try!
WARNING! This is beta quality software. This release is intended for GNOME developers and beta testers. For more information about the 49 release, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our schedule page.
Heya,
So the x11 is getting canned with Gnome 49 or so I heard. That means Gnome has ironed out the issues with the image retention on monitors with refresh rates above 60 Hz?
What issue are you referring to, do you have link to it? And yes, the X11 session is getting disabled cause the Wayland session is an improvement in every way possible. There is no functionality lost or regressions that we know off.
Anyhow, was messing around few days ago moving all my stuff to linux from windows and setting stuff up and noticed the burn in when using Wayland. Tried X11 and it desn’ t have this issue. Been using X11 now for few days and haven’t noticed anything unusual. Wayland though Very noticable image retention. Am on 165 Hz monitor though.
No offence, I kinda find this funny, but every other linux user I know use only bare minimum hw so they never notice any issues (the developers) Refresh rate never exceeds 60 Hz. Right now am typing this from one of my dirty work laptops and it’s supper low spec. Couldn’t tell the difference Wayland vs X11 for daly use.Never had a burn-in with this brick too.
Would be cool if someone from dev team could look into hi hz display thing. Would take 2h max to get some empirical evidence of it, though God knows if it’ s fixable without touching Wayland, though I am pretty sure that is an issue, but on what end, no clue.
Though I also use nvidia gpu and I hear people still have some issues. Though that’ s on newest drivers from nvidia.
Very noticable image retention. Am on 165 Hz monitor though.
Refresh rate never exceeds 60 Hz. Right now am typing this from one of my dirty work laptops and it’s supper low spec. Couldn’t tell the difference Wayland vs X11 for daly use.Never had a burn-in with this brick too.