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Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you want Wayland, go with Arch/Cachy

That's a terrible recommendation for new users...

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If all they want a computer for is Steam, they're going to get a better experience on Wayland. Cinnamon is built on X.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If all they want a computer for is Steam, they’re going to get a better experience on Wayland.

That's different than outright suggesting Arch.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But SteamOS is Arch? So why not suggest CachyOS, which is in a similar space?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

But SteamOS is Arch?

No, it's an immutable OS based on Arch. Also not rolling release.

So why not suggest CachyOS, which is in a similar space?

You were also suggesting regular Arch and that's irresponsible.

[–] flynnguy@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is an experimental Wayland for Mint... on the login screen there is an icon in the upper right. Clicking that allows you to select the experimental Wayland version or X11... there's one other but I forget what it is at the moment. So it is possible to run Mint and Wayland, just not recommended.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 days ago

Oh, right. I never see the login screen, so I keep forgetting it.