• Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Man I picked the best time to take a serious shot at daily driving desktop linux. Most of what I want just works and new stuff is always just around the corner. Just got NTsync on my preferred kernel, now wayland session restore is coming.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      22 hours ago

      been dailing it for almost 10 years now, i think.

      the speed of their progress is impressive.

      another 5 years and it will be unrecognizably good.

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      The last time I tried a linux system for a daily driver was over 10 years ago. At the time everything felt rough, unstable, unsupported, and gaming in particular was nonexistent.

      Set up a CachyOS dual boot back in February, think I booted up Windows 3 times at most since then (and have since sorted out the issues that I had to do that for in the first place).

      I still can’t seriously recommend the switch to less tech savvy folks (try putting grandma on Mint and see what happens lmao), but we’re definitely finally getting there after all these years.

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        I actually put my grandma on Zorin OS and, well, what happened is that she is using her PC less now lol. But she can get stuff done usually.

        (Get stuff done == read emails, read news, print documents)

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        Setup Mint for grandma, and had to do it again recently as she had bought a new computer and found Windows annoying and unintuitive.

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    2 days ago

    I hate that i just cannot get usted to plasma. I guess I’ll wait two years to get it on gnome after the corporate committee has agreed to all the minutiae.

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    I read the blog post and am still confused as to what this is. It’s something I never used in X11 (if X11 supported it), therefore it’s not possible for me to miss it.

    Is this the “restart all applications you were running when you restart your computer” feature? Was it broken in Wayland? If so, why? I thought the desktop environment would take care of starting the processes, placing the windows, and so on.

    Not entirely sure what the before and after of this are. The blog post and article are written as if people know what this feature is.

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