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m.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbV...
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Consider Fedora KDE.
In my opinion it's the best entry point to Linux in 2025.
- Up to date
- Solid
- Convenient
It's a distro that usually sets the standards others follow.
fedoraproject.org/kde/
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Fighting planned obsolescence is revolutionary.
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www.ubuntupit.com/top-android-...
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I just wanted to clarify what Weston is.
I guess it does work, but that's a use case I personally never tried, I haven't used Xorg server in years.
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The cause of the problem here is that Mint is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which has an ancient version of Plasma 5. (Officially because they didn't have time to test a newer version).
Any distro not based on Ubuntu, with a current version of Plasma (Bazzite is one of them) should work.
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Weston is a Wayland compositor, in fact it's the reference implementation.
Weston, Kwin, Gamescope and probably other Wayland compositors can be run on top of Xorg server, mainly for debugging purposes, but their intended use is not being a reverse XWayland
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Another possibility is that in that forum they were already familiarised with the concept.
A couple of years ago various distros increased the default value imitating SteamOS, and several articles were published in places a Linux gamer probably reads, like Linux Gaming or Phoronix.
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Red Hat 10 (and clones like Rocky) entirely dropped the xorg server.
Fedora and Ubuntu use Gnome, and Gnome will remove the X11 session, but the xorg server will still be available in their repos.
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I prefer LibreOffice Calc to Excel,
first because the translators of LibreOffice to my language decided to *not* translate the formulas (thank you!),
and second because being free, you can share your spreadsheet and be sure that the receiver will have a version capable to open it.
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Re: button, button, button...
I tried several installers to hear for myself. It had to be Turdbuntu Turgent Turd, of course.
Debian 12 seemed like they cared. The installer waits 30 seconds, if nothing has been selected it activates the screen reader and launches a screen reader friendly process.
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Try the Fedora Workstation 42 installer (on a VM if you prefer).
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wiki.gnome.org/Accessibilit...
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Support for Xorg-server has not been dropped by Xorg yet, and will probably stay around a while.
However, some distros and DEs have already dropped support for X11, and you can expect that more will follow, because "flawlessly functioning software" is an extremely generous definition.
You do you
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If by now you don't know why Xorg decided to bury X11 and move to Wayland, it's because you don't want to hear it.
I foresee a lot of self inflicted pain, and I can't help you there, sorry.
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El ranking de Distrowatch no mide uso, ni descargas, ni nada a lo que merezca la pena prestar atención.
Mide clicks en la propia web.
Ese ranking nunca guarda correlación con otras mediciones.
Dicho eso, CachyOS destaca porque ofrece una ventaja tangible y comprobable: rendimiento.
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The news here is that Gnome is removing the X11 session.
Xmonad are late, but might finish migrating before X11 is fully gone.
discourse.haskell.org/t/xmonad-for...
Re Docker, I am seeing plenty of examples in Github depending on the case, wayland host and X guest, all wayland with VNC...
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Either one of the OS is reporting an incorrect value or some background process in Windows is draining the battery.
If you switch to Linux after Windows says it's low, does Linux say it's low too?
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Re: gaming.
In my opinion, gaming focused distros are only good if you want a console like experience.
The only desktop distro that in my PC makes a difference for gaming, is CachyOS, because it does squeeze some extra FPS (5-10%)
And the one to avoid is Ubuntu with Snap.
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www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/08/hero...
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Para GOG, Heroic va muy bien
heroicgameslauncher.com
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Reactos has an XP theme
reactos.org/gallery/
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Yes and yes. Anything you find here, can be installed:
flathub.org
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Only if you use Ubuntu.
www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubun...
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I disagree.
Linux is already very good, and the Linux terminal is probably the best about Linux.
Your opinion will change if you stay around, I promise.
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Your opinion about the terminal will change radically if/when you learn to use it, and see for yourself how powerful you can become.
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ReactOS has an XP theme
reactos.org/project-news...
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Linux is much bigger than Windows where the money is, it dominates even Microsoft's main income source, Azure.
Windows survives on consumer desktops, a less profitable market and in rapid decline.
Valve is not trying to "conquer the desktop", but to ensure they'll still have a market in the future
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In the context of operative systems "stable" implies old, because it literally means that the versions don't change in a long time, and only security patches are applied.
It's interesting for servers, for desktops often you want the exact opposite, the latest and greatest.
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Box86 y drivers propietarios de Nvidia.
Eso tiene que volar, como poco 2 FPS
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Ubuntu was beginner friendlier than Debian when it came out twenty years ago.
People that keep saying it now, repeat what they heard from someone else, but would be unable to put the finger on what specific characteristics supposedly make it easier than Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse...
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On the now obsolete X Window System that was called the "Primary selection", and modern Wayland compositors like Mutter or Kwin reproduce that classic behaviour.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Windo...
It can be disabled in all cases.
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"Works Mostly"
www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/H...
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If you check those two, Steam attempts to use Proton for all the Windows games.
This guide is for CachyOS, but most of it will apply to any distro you use
wiki.cachyos.org/configuratio...
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Nvidia, right?
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2/3? That's odd, did you enable "Steam Play" for all games?
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Dual boot until you feel sure
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Then there's the valiants that say "SteamOS is based on Arch, so I'm installing Arch"
Go kid, you can do it!
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If you just want to play Doom you can place the wad directly in your home folder and Chocolate Doom will see it.
If you want to do fancier things without using the terminal, there are launchers like this
flathub.org/apps/io.gith...
That said, the terminal is your friend, learn the terminal.
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You can drag and drop in Linux too, unless you are trying to play Doom on a headless server.
Which, of course, you can.
www.makeuseof.com/how-to-play-...
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You need not only the driver for the graphics card, but also some mechanics to turn off the dGPU when it's not needed.
See the article.
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That's a gaming laptop with an Nvidia Optimus (Intel iGPU + Nvidia dGPU).
Nvidia never released a proper driver for Linux, so your dGPU is running full speed, and the fans too.
More info
wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA...
I've heard that CachyOS configures these automatically. Can't confirm.
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"The entire Linux community" no.
Users of leading distros have been using Wayland as default for years, and have known for years that Xorg-server was on maintenance.
But apparently some have realised just now, when the dismantling has already started.
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There's this
openrazer.github.io
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Desktop Environment is irrelevant both offer the latest unaltered versions of all the popular ones.
Fedora wins in convenience out of the box, it's more likely that things work without you doing anything or touching a terminal
CachyOS is very interesting if you want to maximise performance.
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Or it might go *very* well.
My father hasn't touched the Windows partition in a decade, he very much prefers Linux.
I didn't have to do much, just spent a little time explaining how to move around, solve some initial doubts, done.
He still needs help occasionally, but less often than with Windows