So, I’m hoping to reduce the substantial screen tearing that I’m encountering while watching videos.

One of the suggestions that I have found is to enable wayland, which did help quite a bit (this is the guide I found). However, I’ve decided I don’t really want to use gnome. Gnome seems great, but I’ve already become accustomed to using cosmic.

Apparently pop os is in a transitionary phase and will eventually update to wayland as the default, but I’m just wondering if there’s other desktop environments I should be considering? I see that Fedora now comes with a KDE cosmic variant, but I don’t know if this would be any better or not.

Edit:

I ended up installing kde plasma standard desktop environment (which was listed here). Upon booting into the login screen there’s a big on-screen keyboard. Hit enter to bypass it. In the dropdown menu on the top left of the screen, there is an option for ‘pop on wayland’

So far, everything seems to be working good. I had to change the steam client to the ‘proton hotfix’ to get one of my games to play.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I don’t use Freetube, but I’m pretty sure that the Steam client can do vsync as long as you have hardware acceleration enabled in the Steam settings.

        Hmm.

        What video hardware are you using? Like, what’s the output of this command:

        $ glxinfo|grep "^OpenGL renderer string"

        Do you perchance have mpv? That gives very considerable control over video output, so it’s useful to try things regarding video.

        Can you yt-dlp this vsync test video to your local machine? I’ve used it in the past to confirm whether tearing is present, and it’d be useful to run under mpv with some different settings.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIRq5HTh5s

        • technomad@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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          1 day ago

          I think I’ve found a decent solution for now, I’ll keep the troubleshooting options you’ve listed in mind if I run into problems in the future. Thank you.