Best desktop in the world, no joke.
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Yeah, really do it ok? Not only are you helping yourself, you're helping everyone by shoving it up the clueless execs at microsoft who still have no idea why people dislike their stupid spy AI thingy.
Too bad Linux completely abandoned accessibility with Wayland by putting accessibility API implementations up to the distros. Which, by far, don't. And when they do it's fragmented as fuck.
Making Linux an absolute no go for anyone that needs accessibility tools like Talon, which does work on X11 APIs. Since those were actually consistent.
What are you talking about? Sorry but it is these types of comments that confuse new users. Same with the systems init.d bullshit.
I am running endeavour os on my laptop with kde Wayland and I have absolutely no issues. None! Sure there are some fringe cases but for the large majority Linux is working flawlessly!
Wayland is responsible for kneecapping linux desktop in so many ways its infuriating, especially since linux basically figured out the golden standard of UX design back in the 2000s with stuff like GNOME 2 and Compiz.
It's such an unnecessary burden with progress as slow as ripoff projects like star citizen.
I hope valve picks up the slack with frog protocols or at least gets PRs merged, because it would be stupid to ship steam machine and then explain to the user that the clipboard doesn't work yet, even though it used to work perfectly fine in X11.
Except accessibility, Wayland has been a huge upgrade over X11.
Much better security isolation, proper HDR, full multi-monitor support, full VRR support, better application scaling, no screen tearing and reduced latency. (The clipboard also works fine)
Without Wayland I would not be on Linux right now.
First of all I didn't say exponential, only you did. Second, the majority of those 3% came in the last few years. So say 1% in 30 years, 2% more in like 4. Sound exponential yet?
"Tech journalists" installing linux in 2025 like it's this hot new tech is not exactly the early adoptership I'd expect from them :)
Every time anyone rejects Microsoft's shitty bloatware/spyware it's a win. I just converted a few months ago. Win11 is going to push more and more people away.
Gaming on Linux has gotten way better than what is was a few years ago.
🤞pleasejustpickbazzite pleasejustpickbazzite pleasejustpickbazzite🤞
I’m going to install CachyOS, an Arch-based distro
oh god dammit
Bazzite is much worse for a new user then cachy. Worse documentation and a load of quirks from being immutable.
Frankly they would be better off with mint unless they need very up to date hardware support for like a laptop.
I installed CachyOS for a weekend and it’s now been several months. I love it.
But I would never, ever recommend it to a new user. It still requires someone to be comfortable on the command line and it’s possible to break it if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Bazzite just works. You install it and start logging into your accounts. It’s nearly impossible for a newcomer to break, and perfect for the vast majority of new Linux users.
Recommending Cachy to new users hurts not only those users but the entire Linux ecosystem.
I don’t recommend Mint, either, but only because I am a KDE cultist, I hate Cinnamon, and every time I’ve tried it on anything I’ve had frustrating hardware issues that I have never had on Fedora.
I’m BlameTheAntifa and I have a distro-hopping addiction.
Bazzite is good for people who break their computer constantly because it's harder to break. Cachy is better for people who can be trusted with sudo
This. I mained Arch for 2 years and still can't be completely trusted with sudo. Moved to Nobara, would recommend as well. Its a bit more advanced, but you don't have to touch the command line if you don't want to and setup is right there step-by-step when you first boot.
I did try Bazzite first. I just couldn't get used to living the Flatpak life. I know you can force install native packages, but at that point why wouldn't I just use Nobara, lol.
Drag tried Bazzite last year and hated it for the same reason as you. Now drag's on Cachy and loves it. Drag did accidentally break the swap file entry in fstab and dealt with months of slow booting and freezing, but drag accepts that as drag's own fault and fixed it. If a user is good natured about fucking their computer up with sudo, cachy is a great OS, and most users won't even do anything complicated enough to risk breaking their computer that bad. Bazzite is for users who can't fix it or won't accept it when they do something stupid with sudo.
Cachy's not that bad for beginners. I just did a test install on an old Nvidia PC, and it works for gaming OOTB.
We've come a looooong way from Manjaro. I wouldn't wish Manjaro on my worst enemy, to be clear.
I haven't used Manjaro in many many years, but IIRC it was the first distro I used that reliably supported Wi-Fi.
I'M FED UP, GOING TO INSTALL LINUX!
- picks a complicated distro where you really need to read the manual or do some heavy google searches to do gaming *
I'M FED UP, THIS IS TOO HARD, I'M GOING BACK TO WINDOWS!
Cachy is one of the easiest distros to use
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Are you looking for fellow Bazzite users? (I'm one of them)
Good to meet you brother/sister! We walk a rather lonesome road but glad I stand alongside you
I'm standing slightly to the left of you.
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