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For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).

Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I discovered that the default de wasn't gnome actually. It was raspberry pi DE, which isn't my thing.

Through I had no idea that the rpi5 required some stuff that is not yet merged into the kernel, and only raspbian works as a result, because they ship s custom one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alpine Linux has no default DE, I'm not sure what you're talking about. It's up to the user to install a DE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I meant on raspbian.