Linux Mint has a very good track record thanks to their “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it” mentality and user friendliness. That’s why people still recommend it. With the rapid developments around gaming related software, their mentality works against them.
Yes it does. Your whole display server is your desktop/WM when using Wayland. Using the newer versions you get things like VRR, HDR, fractional display scaling and so on.
In the last year I was intentionally using beta packages of KDE Plasma to get stuff like touchpad gestures early. Even now, Plasma makes important developments like HDR and explicit sync so yes, it still matters.
Linux Mint has a very good track record thanks to their “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it” mentality and user friendliness. That’s why people still recommend it. With the rapid developments around gaming related software, their mentality works against them.
Do you really need fresh system packages? Outside of the kernel the desktop shouldn’t impact the experience much.
Yes it does. Your whole display server is your desktop/WM when using Wayland. Using the newer versions you get things like VRR, HDR, fractional display scaling and so on.
In the last year I was intentionally using beta packages of KDE Plasma to get stuff like touchpad gestures early. Even now, Plasma makes important developments like HDR and explicit sync so yes, it still matters.