tailscale also just has a button to buy/enable mullvad as an exit node. if you’re just looking for a commercial vpn for privacy it works well.

the problem is if the connection gets interrupted your progress is gone. you download to a file first and it gets interrupted, you just resume the download later

is that not just a checkbox when you install though?

there was that one time Ubuntu added ads to the search menu tho

one is giving the permission to manage the system service to a specific user, the other is running the service as the current user so they have permission to manage it by default

Try removing essential packages from your system or unmounting /boot

if you have an esphome supported board the ikea air quality monitors are even cheaper, I just got one of those lol

5 years ago it was not a single command anywhere as far as I know. historic arch link since the history button was easy to find, but I think the process was similar elsewhere: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=NVIDIA_Optimus&oldid=523777

fork gnome then, idk what to tell you

this is someone that’s never dealt with drivers for optimus lol, which I’m pretty sure is the main reason people hate nvidia on linux so much

yeah that’s weird, and I can’t really tell why, but then that’s a gnome problem not a Wayland problem. they’re explicitly choosing to not support it.

I did find this though which seems to imply that it could be supported in mutter, but it’d take a fork if you wanted to implement it in gnome shell https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/973

anyway, there’s choice. if you need these features use something that supports them

where are gaps?

also fair, not dead, but it’s silly to say sway is too.

the calligra suite works fine too. open office is basically dead and replaced by libreoffice. I don’t know if any development is still happening. I can’t name another office suite Wayland or otherwise though

xwayland does just work though. I don’t even know how to explicitly run something under it

explicit flags are more of a problem, but they’re going away slowly, and for the most part people can just let things run under xwayland instead of dealing with flags. there are some apps that just won’t work, but for the most part it’s not a widespread issue in my experience

just look things up lol

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Backlight#Wayland

have you seen steam deck sales? linux gaming is mainstream. everything I’ve tried recently just works.

When would you think sway is dead lol? it has way more commits than i3, same number of contributors, and the last commit was 7 minutes ago. i3 hasn’t been touched in months. i3 is dead, contributors have jumped to sway

also, even if you aren’t using scratchpads over guake, guake runs on Wayland. https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1934

idk why all the people against Wayland are so clueless lol, it feels intentionally ignorant at this point

the one built in to plasma does, haven’t tried any others

haven’t had discord or screen locking issues and I have plenty of monitors. haven’t run into any game issues either, but I do preemptively run older stuff in gamescope which tends to avoid a lot of issues

This is just misinformed.

Sure your favorite apps may not use it, but Wayland does provide protocols for drawing things over other apps. https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1

I never used guake with i3 since scratchpads exist and are the general solution, and sway works fine there.

and there’s plenty of screenshot apps that work. I haven’t tried gnome-screenshot, but I find it hard to believe that it or some alternative gnome one doesn’t work given the effort the project has put into Wayland

nvidia support isn’t great but it is getting better. I haven’t bought nvidia in forever but I know plasma and gnome both say they have support for Wayland on nvidia now.

For gaming amd is great, for real work I’d just rent time on some cloud service lol. If I’m that worried about performance my one consumer gpu isn’t going to make a dent either

try element x, on android it opens almost instantly. still in beta though

try running them in gamescope, eliminates a lot of that type of problem