Vela
Vela is a new desktop environment built on wlroots with a custom Vulkan 1.4 renderer, aiming to outperform Plasma. It focuses on fractional scaling, sharpness, and usability. The author is building a benchmark suite reporting roughly 40% less RAM usage, 40% faster input lag, lower CPU usage in some activities, and better responsiveness under high CPU load. The taskbar/start menu placement is customizable.
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Vela
Vela is a new desktop environment built on wlroots with a custom Vulkan 1.4 renderer, aiming to outperform Plasma. It focuses on fractional scaling, sharpness, and usability. The author is building a benchmark suite reporting roughly 40% less RAM usage, 40% faster input lag, lower CPU usage in some activities, and better responsiveness under high CPU load. The taskbar/start menu placement is customizable.
Posted by @BrandoDev_it · Original comment ↗
“Vela! A new desktop environment made to use just Vulkan 1.4, expecting to be faster than Plasma* and made with wlroots, but using a custom renderer. It has focus on fractional scaling, sharpness and usability. Take a look at https://velade.org”