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		skyfaller on Sept 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Waylan... I was very impressed with Foot on my MNT Reform, where I was having trouble getting Alacritty to work (hardware issues too difficult to overcome, and I say that as someone who was able to apply a patch to make Alacritty run on my Pinebook Pro before the mainline version supported the hardware). Foot installed and ran like a breeze, and never felt slow even with pretty minimal hardware.

WhyNotHugo on Sept 24, 2023 [–]

A big upside of foot is it not being GPU accelerated. It works in situations were hardware support is missing.

Back when I used alacrity I kept foot installed for emergencies where I’d broken hardware acceleration.

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