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I'm ready to install Linux, but I'd like your opinion first (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello I'm Doctor_Rex I'm the OP of this post:

My Windows 10 install broke, but I'm hesitant to switch to Linux.

I'd like to start by thanking everybody who responded to my questions. Your answers have helped a lot when it came to my worries on switching to Linux.

I've taken in a lot of your recommendations: Fedora, Fedora Kinoite, Nobara, Bazzite Linux, VanillaOS,

I've decided on Fedora Kinoite, as it has everything I want from a distro.

It was very kind of you all to answer my questions but after making that post and reading your answers new questions propped up.

These questions are a little more opinionated than the last ones, and a little better thought out, but please take some time to answer them.

Questions:

Is Wayland worth using? Especially when you consider all the issues that may come from using an NVIDIA card.

Are there any real noticeable advantages/improvements to using Wayland over Xorg.

Does bloat actually matter or is it just a meme?

Does bloat actually have a noticeable negative impact on your system or are people just over reacting/joking.

What are some habits I should practice in order to keep my system organized and manageable?

Any habits or standards that I should abide by in order to save myself headaches in the future?

Any other resources besides the Arch Wiki that I should be aware of?

Self explanatory.

What do you wish you knew when you first started using Linux that would have saved you a headache in the future?

I'm not referring to some skill but instead something pertaining to Linux itself. Feel free to skip this question.

I'll be going to sleep soon, so apologies if I don't reply but please take a moment answer any questions you think you can.

Thank You!

Edit: ~~AUR~~ = Arch Wiki. Fixed a typo

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what you mean by Wayland not being ready for general adoption. I've been using it on Fedora for a year now with no issues whatsoever.

Might be a Hyprland issue instead of Wayland, as I remember from the time I tried out Hyprland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wayland itself has lots of missing features. There are applications that need absolute window positioning to move sub-windows together with the main window. It's not an issue on Windows, Mac, or X11, but Wayland doesn't have a protocol that would allow this (it's still just a proposal, and there is A LOT of drama surrounding it). Wayland also doesn't have color management, and support for drawing tablets is rudimentary, which is a deal-breaker for artists and designers. It doesn't have a standardized way to capture windows either (for streaming or recording), which is why Hyprland's maintainer made his own xdg-desktop-portal implementation with blackjack and hookers.

Wayland is great for my use-cases, and I'm willing to work around its issues (mainly related to portals), but there are use-cases where it's completely unusable. Nvidia support is also sketchy - lots of visual artifacts and flickering windows.