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Cake day: February 24th, 2024

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  • Who said Wayland was going to be the death? (Excluding canonical) Everyone knew X needed to be replaced and that the transition will be slow until its not.

    And systemd is not that bad these days. I do think it’s more complex than it needs to be and startup is a bit slow, but that’s about it.

    GNOME making the huge changes inspired the refugees to build Cinnamon and injected some sense into KDE development. Now even GNOME is getting more sensible.














  • Most of the hobbyists I speak to that have failed linux desktop experiences mostly switch back to windows due to:

    1. Hardware compatibility issues.
    2. Microsoft office interoperability limitations of the web based office.
    3. Display scaling issues on multi-monitor setups and some linux applications.

    Personally for me the list is:

    1. Bluetooth not being detected on my particular asus laptop. (The same bluetooth chip works in other laptops)
    2. Multi-monitor scaling and resolution issues when 3 external monitors are connected via thunderbolt doc.
    3. Lack of good alternatives to fancyzones