 I've been using Linux full time now for 4 years and one of the problems that I've had in every single distribution I've ever installed during that 4 years is that screen tearing has been a problem. And when I'm talking about screen tearing, I'm not talking about necessarily during games what that happens to, and I'm not really talking about in videos although that happens too. I'm really talking about when you're in like Firefly Chrome or whatever and you scroll and you notice that the screen tears as you scroll. It drives me absolutely bonkers and this happens in every single distribution that I've ever installed. And really the only common thread that I can think of is that they all are running Xorg. These distributions have been running either running QT or GTK apps, they've been running a multitude of different window managers and compositors and desktop environments. I've tried them all, they've all had this problem to varying degrees. Now there are solutions that take away this problem, but that's not the point. The point is that when I install Linux I have to solve this problem because the screen tearing exists and it drives me absolutely out of my mind and saying that this problem has not been fixed. Now I understand Xorg is old. We know that Brian Lunduk has been talking about how Xorg is out of date for at least 10 years, probably longer in his Linux sucks videos so we know Xorg is old. It seems that this problem should have been fixed and it hasn't been. Now I don't know if anybody else even experiences this, maybe it's just a me problem, but this has happened across multiple computers. The computer that I have back there is running Debian and it has screen tearing problems. The only way I've found to actually fix it is by using PyCom and a window manager. It does OK and GNOME for whatever reason, but in any window manager or plasma or whatever I have to have PyCom running and even then every once in a while I'll see a screen tear and it just fries my brain because like what are you doing? This is a modern computer that shouldn't be happening and this computer that I'm running on now is a high-end AMD system about as top of the line as you can get a couple years ago at least and it still screen tears every time I install a new distro whether it's Arco, based on Arch, whether it's Vanilla Arch, whether it was MxLinux, they all had the same problem and like I said I'm pretty sure it has to do with Xorg. The question I have is too full. Maybe Wayland will fix this so let's hurry up and get Wayland working on more window managers because right now there aren't very many window managers out there that actually use Wayland. Sway is like the only main one that has seen like advanced development and the second one is is why hasn't this been fixed in Xorg or why hasn't it been fixed by distro maintainers? Like I said a lot of times they'll work fine in GNOME. GNOME is about the only desktop environment I know that has solved this problem but even then I still see it from time to time. Other desktop environments and window managers just don't seem to care and now obviously if it's a window manager they're not going to do anything for it anyway they expect you to do extra work in order to get things to work but for desktop environments it seems that if you want to fix this problem you're on your own. The reason why I'm making this video now in my weekly rant video is that the solution that I've been using for the last year and a half which is to add a snippet of code into an x.conf.defile I think is what it's called and no longer works. For whatever reason some update whether it's just to ARCO or to ARCH actually I know it's not just to ARCO ARCH because it didn't work on Debian either. For whatever reason the solution that I've been using no longer works. It always after a reboot which you always have to reboot after messing with that in order to get the changes to take effect just boots up to a long line of text and gets to the point where it's about to log in about to display the display manager and then it just freezes and that seems to be the only solution that I knew that would 100% take care of the screen tearing problem across whatever distribution you were using and no longer works and the fact that I still have to resort to a basically a hack in order to get things to scroll smoothly and not just tear during videos and stuff just drives me out of my mind so I don't know who I have to talk to to fix this but please whoever you are please fix this because it's I mean when you're building a car there are certain things that just have to work really well nobody cares if you have a crappy audio system in a car it doesn't matter as long as you're steering wheel works your brakes work and the wheels work in the engine works you know these basic fundamentals fundamentals of a car that you have to have in order for the car to be considered you know a car in Linux or when you're talking about operating systems you know even more generally there are certain things that just have to work audio has to be one of those and your display manager or your display server or whatever has to work and it has to work flawlessly even on modern systems otherwise your OS is not good it has you know major flaws it's buggy and this feels like a major bug that just has existed forever and people just seem to put up with it now I've even seen like youtubers Linux YouTubers that have this problem they make videos just general Linux videos that have screen tearing all over the place and they just consider it normal like this isn't normal you will you open up windows and you scroll down on page on in a web browser you don't get screen tearing obviously Windows has other problems you know but you open up a mac it doesn't you know smooth scrolling there is perfectly fine but you'll you log into a Linux box and you have screen tearing okay I like I don't even know how are we supposed to consider our operating system modern and functional if one of the basic tenants of being an operating system don't act doesn't actually work flawlessly like all the other operating systems do so that's my rant for this week let me know below if you've had problems with screen tearing because I I mean I can't be the only one right so I'd love to know what your experiences are with this let me know in the comments below make sure you like and subscribe all that nonsense you can follow me on twitter at the linuxcast I tweet about Linux and other things you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast before I go I'd like to take one to thank my current patrons Devon Marcus Meglund Sven east coast web Donnie Chris Kell of Devils Mitchell Mr Fox American camp thanks everybody for watching I'll see you next time