I tried I3 but it seems the new window always appears in a vertical slice, maybe some people like that so windows are set manually. I prefer automatic tiling, I use Bspwm for that. It needs two config files but they are simple, no programming is required. Its way to split screen is almost always good. In the rare exceptions I add a rule in the main config file so the app appears in a floating window.
My personal favourite is qtile and it’s been my main WM for a long time. I3 is another good option. Wayland experience looks to vary from the other comments, but if you do use qtile and wanted to try wayland, you can get it to run using it (although I’ve never tried it myself).
I really liked awesomewm back in the day. Though everything was configured by arco Linux (arch fork), so have to idea how easy it is to get your configs up and running like in hyprland.
not sure your exact case, but I would highly recommend using pipewire, Bluetooth audio devices were nothing but pain for me with pulse audio and they just worked on pipewire
What are people’s experiences with dual booting windows and one of the Linux distros from the same SSD (different partitions) as opposed to having two physically separate SSDs? I unfortunately don’t have another M.2 slot on my mobo
It’s pretty easy, I installed Mint on my laptop and the installer took care of the partition and everything. On my desktop, I just installed an m.2 expansion slot.
I do this, but you should pre-partition your drives. Shrinking partitions is risky and takes forever. Install Windows first, Linux second and GRUB should take over as the bootloader. This is fixable if you go the other way but you need to be considerably more familiar with bootloaders in general.
Dude come on. Make an effort. If you really haven’t a clue then start by reading the KDE developer’s blog “Pointiest Stick” and github user Probonopd and his article + links gist.github.com/…/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f227…
Not only is @jacksilver right, but additionally, this article is extremely biased in favor of Xorg and is much more of a (completely unfair and one-sided) take-down of Wayland oriented at technical folks and not at all an explainer for laypeople
Not OP, but the point of asking for an ELI5 is that sometimes you don’t even know where to start. For example I clicked the link you provided and only have more questions as I don’t really know what people mean by display servers, etc.
Sure I could look everything up and try to understand, but the hope is someone in the community might provide a better or faster summary than what can currently be found online.
Something similar has been asked loads and loads of times. It’s not needed to investigate, just searching for previous discussions is enough. It sometimes surprises me that people don’t read one of the many times the same was asked before. That said, despite the same questions coming up many times there’s often multiple people who will gladly explain things. So I agree that it doesn’t make sense to complain about it. I’m a bit surprised that nothing would come up though. It really gets asked regularly.
I get your point. I don’t know about OP, but I hadn’t seen a similar thread, but I usually browse all so easily miss posts for specific communities.
Also, I’ve found search on Lemmy hit or miss. The federation aspect of everything makes search sometimes difficult or confusing. For example, what community would most likely have already provided an ELI5 post and how would it have been phrased?
Debian is very easy to manage, it has the one of packages and mostly sane defaults. Ubuntu’s user friendliness owes a lot to Debian. I do not like the state of package management however. Dpkg is in need of some upgrades, and the deb package format has some security concerns.
Rocky, being RHEL-derived is, as expected, exceptionally stable. I personally find DNF to be the superior package manager and I have historically run into fewer issues with it. Repos are extensive, especially with copr and fusion, but not as good as Debian.
For a simple home server use Debian. If you want experience with enterprise Linux use Rocky.
I’m on mobile so formatting might not look the best, but here it goes!
X11 scaling - does this link help? wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPISpecifically under either xorg or KDE plasma I think you might be able to find some settings that help
For Wayland - would wdisplays help you out? I’ve had good results using that along with kanshi.
As for system freezing, I’m just taking a shot in the dark but this might be a KDE thing based on a quick search. Wayland is new and sexy, but apparently all the bugs aren’t worked out for KDE. This answer isn’t great, and is very hand-wavey, but without more details outside of you’re on KDE I can’t really help much. Unfortunately for you, I switched over to Sway which apparently has better Wayland support out of the box.
Another thing to solve: XWayland apps as a different user
Giving access to the wayland socket makes other users able to use wayland; however programs that rely on XWayland to work don’t seem to get it:
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Start Failed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Failed to initialize graphics environment
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at java.desktop/sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">0120:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetThreadInitializationType FFFFFFFA, 0ECAFF08
</span><span style="color:#323232;">0128:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">0128:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"The explorer process failed to start."
</span><span style="color:#323232;">0128:err:systray:initialize_systray Could not create tray window
</span><span style="color:#323232;">0114:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">0114:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly."
</span><span style="color:#323232;">0114:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFA, 0DE4FB40
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I really like the idea of COSMIC apps and rust powered cross platform dev tools. But I think that the design language of COSMIC so far still needs some polish, so far it seems like there is so much white space, like they’re afraid to show more information on one screen. :(. Also not a fan of rounded corners. I hope this changes soon after it matures a bit.
I don’t think you can say that because we haven’t published our design language yet. Only a handful of design mockups have been published so far. The screenshots here are not design mockups but a work in progress implementation. Hence the “In-progress” part of the title.
Rounded corners are a user preference in the Appearance page in COSMIC Settings.
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