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Honestly the thing I miss most about the latest Linux distributions. I understand screensavers aren’t necessary anymore, but they are fun and should still be a thing.
I miss the old windows colored bubbles, where your screen was still visible and the bubbles just moved around on top of everything.
I think it was from 7. In 10 they changed it so there was a black screen with the bubbles. Not nearly as much fun (I do zero secure things on my home computers). They also seemed to churn more, like glass balls, rather than bouncing off each other like they originally did.
I’m not on windows anymore but man I do miss that one.
Pretty sure it was 7. Loved those bubbles.
I think only ChromeOS' Exo and KDE's KWin (cheating, since its just the kde screen locker) are the only wayland compositors with screensaving functionality. Which is just a picture slideshow.
Seems like no devs want to reimplement screensavers that are not just pictures.
They are very much still kinda necessary. They prevent burn-in, which is still a possible issue on certain types of displays (like OLEDs).
Then again, even back in the hay day of screensavers you could have simply turned the monitor off and left the PC on. 🤷♂️
As I understand it, for the burn-in you can just turn the display off. It was not always that way because old CRT monitors take a while to turn back on so it was annoying.
My modern LCD takes eons longer to turn on than any of the CRTs I've used.
I have two LCD monitors and a CRT monitor in use right now. The CRT is a lot faster in turning on, though it did stop displaying the color red for a bit, though I did fix that by unplugging it and letting the capacitors drain so whatever.
Meh. Who needs red.
If my screen doesn't need saving, I'd like the clock on the lock screen to stay put.
Eh. I'm fine with the screen just shutting off.