I started using Linux more last year due to work, so the exodus from Reddit to FOSS land has been perfectly timed for me. I think I have 4 different distros in VMs right now.
Those machines are very, very good to run Linux. Stable, everything is supported out of the most, very reliable. About calling home, they don’t, however some models, like most machines, have Intel ME baked into the CPU and that can be remotely accessed. The good thing is that you can disable the Intel ME features on the UEFI and there’s a toggle to completely disable the network card before an OS is loaded.
Wait what? I’m no fan of Wayland, but what you just said, I’m afraid, is all wrong.
Wayland, although being around for over a decade, is the newer protocol. The older protocol would be X11.
Pipewire is also the new kid on the block, for audio. PulseAudio would be the older one being replaced.
WINE is a Windows compatibility layer or wedge. It stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, if I recall.
Wayland seeks to provide a newer display standard, as I keep being told (forcefully and repeatedly) X11 is not sustainable… There’s a lot about that we don’t need to rehash here, but long story short, In with the new (Wayland), and sooner or later, out with the old (X11).
Pipewire is meant to be a replacement for PulseAudio, and near as I can tell, quite backwards compatible.
WINE is to run Windows application on Linux. Like many Linux applications right now, it is being updated to support Wayland (I believe that’s well underway already) and it already works fine with Pipewire. WINE will work on X11 and Wayland.
Lastly, what do you mean by weaker systems? X11 is weak when it comes to being security conscious. Part of Wayland’s mission is to address that by being far more secure by default. Pipewire, while maintaining backwards compatibility, is able to do more things, as well, than the original PulseAudio.
Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to read some great new stuff!
My little one where I promote some apps I think deserve more love, talk about neovim and zsh cool tweaks, and share my experience with some bigger projects (like building your own split keyboard, testing a new distro…).
linux
Oldest
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.