Felix

Meanwhile me who uses Wayland and only has the absolute necessary packages installed to make Xwayland work.

I am fine with it and personally make heavy use of it. On my Arch install, I use systemd-boot, systemd-timesyncd, neworkd, resolved and unified kernel images with ukify.

Roast me you systemd haters.

I know this might sound sumb to some. But I have a freesync monitor, so as long as I stay within my freesync range, I should still be completely tear free, even with V-sync disabled, right?

It's Ubuntu LTS, but with the latest KDE stuff. Can't break it down further.

Sadly Zypper isn't really faster. From my experience, pacman is really the best package manager. But if you still want to try Opensuse. There's also Leap. It's a stable release distro, though it mostly uses LTS ⁄ stable software as it's a clone of SUSE enterprise, while Fedora mostly gets cutting edge software when a new release hits.

I've now been daily driving Arch for ~1 year or so. I mean, it works. I've only re-installed it once when I bought a new nvme drive. But except that. I've kinda gotten used to everything. Nix seems so cool. Everything in a config file, like what? 80k packages in the repo? But Arch is just so comfy, I know how pacman works, everything is up and running perfectly. I've installed CachyOS's x86-64-v3 repos for max performance. My system just works.

Good, I already thought that it would crash so often, because I'm using Firefox from a custom ArchLinux repository.

I think I can talk for a lot of people if I say, that I'm not really surprised by this decision.

Wait

Ubuntu uses GNOME. Xwayland is one of GNOME's dependencies. meaning apt bricked your GNOME for no apperent reason???

Though if your dm breaks, you should still be able to log into a TTY and start your desktop manually. This is what I do for my Hyprland install, since I don't see a reason to use a dm personally.

Enter the Gungeon is fun if you like bullet hell And Spelunky 1 and 2 are nice if you want a roguelike as a jump'n'run Although if you want to play Spelunky, definitely start with the first game. The second game is more difficult and more complex.

Sway... Just behaves weird at times. The tiling just never feels right and it never seems to do exactly what I want. Hyprland just feels better in its behavior. And it has cool animations!

I am a student and can't get into rdr2 either, because I know that I have to play for a few hours to get to a big, epic, story mission. I gave up after the first two missions. For me, the game would've been better if it didn't have an open world, bur rather, you just get send from mission to mission. Like Call of Juareze Gunslinger (which is also western themd), where it's just a bunch of story missions. Nice 5-6 hour adventure iirc.

I forgot to say, that you can also work around this by pressing ctrl + alt + f1 during shutdown. (so switching to TTY 1) For whatever reason, this causes SDDM to work normally, stop in peace and allows systemd to shut the rest of the system down like it's supposed to. Without it having to go kill the process.

At least that's how it used to work on Windows (10) Just disable v-sync ingame and freesync should take care of the tearing. Although over here, some people say that you have to enable v-sync, then Wayland by itself has v-sync, kinda making freesync irrelevant?¿? I guess I'm just gonna wait for a new release of Xwayland and for it to land on Arch's repos so that I can test it out.

I just use Linux as my "daily driver" OS and use the command line cuz it's just fun to use and some things are just straight up faster on here.

If you really care about high performance on an SSD, use f2fs. This filesystem was made for SSDs specifically. Though ext4 and xfs are also really solid and shouldn't be that much slower. But if you do care about squeezing out every bit out of performance, f2fs is definitely worth trying.

It's a bit more experimental, yet I've been daily driving it for maybe a year or so at this point and it never caused trouble once, even with cutting edge mount options.

Well, sure this. SDDM is basically KDE's display manager and it's good that another "plasma component" (it isn't a KDE project yet, but it will soon be taken over from what I know) is moving over to Wayland. This also fixes a very annoying bug in which Plasma (under Wayland) refuses to shut down and it would take 1.5 minutes to for your system to shut down. 1.5 minutes is the time limit at which systemd automatically kills the process, because SDDM can't die in peace.

Yeah. You just have to get used to knowing that there is always going to be a distro which will be "better" than you current one.

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