average linux experience 

can play videos on tv with cool interface

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can’t just turn the TV on though because if you start X without an HDMI client it won’t ever start the display and you have to reboot to get the interface up

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average linux experience 

@icedquinn Wait what? I hotplug HDMI displays with X almost every day.

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@swiley i just turned the TV on and i had to kill and restart X remotely to get kodi up. and when i turned on X without the TV active it didn't work when i turned the TV on, until i reset it *while the TV was on.*

also my desktop (much newer computer) worked with HDMI but since i changed to a displayport monitor X will 'forget' there is a monitor there and won't use it if its turned off too long. have to restart X while the monitor is alive to fix.

but that's the cost of freedom i guess.

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@icedquinn@blob.cat @swiley@qoto.org I have the same category of bs on the pinephone. usb c display hotplug will fuck up X like no other (i thought this was wayland country anyway??)

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@purple @swiley i kind of barely got wayland to work when i tried gentoo.

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@purple @swiley i remember getting something like sway to boot, but things were very slow. i think it was running everything under opengl emulation since i remember being able to start kitty term but it ran like molasses. i booted back over to X and i can at least use these old junkers for a while longer.
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@icedquinn @purple That's my main complaint with wayland. It's better than X11 if all your graphics drivers are set up correctly. So if the companies that are worst about screwing their users over screw you over then your computer is basically unusable outside of the kernel VTEs or X11.

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