I’ve had more problems with my turing card on x11 than wayland (kde), with random issues with the application menu and weird colour management. That said wayland isn’t very good on that card either.
I think nvidia cards are just bad in general and comparing x11 vs Wayland on nvidia is like comparing different types of feces
there’s things that only work on Wayland though, like smooth touchpad gestures and waydroid
Specs aren’t too important. I like my distros lightweight, and a web browser will be the most demanding thing it’ll run.
web browsers are pretty fucking heavy these days, I think the minimum spec for an “ok” experience is a 3rd gen quad core “mobile” chip like the 3612qm or an 8th gen quad core “ultrabook” chip like the 8650u
I think you do tend to get better at some things after you leave it for a while, your brain just has more time to process it or something idk
I don’t think the usb connected controller part would have any latency, that’s basically just another USB input device. I’d guess that it’s between the OS and your eyes (graphics driver latency, wine shenanigans, display refresh rate+pixel refresh latency)
if you want to customise everything you can do that with .inputrc configuration in bash
that’s completely fine :)
I think the biggest part of learning Linux is learning where to get help. Most programs have a help dialog with --help or -h, or man pages you can find somewhere. Even the terminal has a help dialog if you just type “help”, most things are more user friendly than they seem!
If man pages are difficult to read, I recommend installing tealdeer (tldr). it shows a short summary of example command usages and it’s great (e.g. tldr ls shows the different ways you can use ls)
i found sway to be more performant than i3 on my core 2 duo machine, though tbf i prefer the default config of i3
depends a lot on your actual hardware. some 2014 computers can run kde just fine, some will struggle with it. what actual components do you have?
I have arch + kde plasma running on a i5 3320m among other things and it’s completely fine. Your 4gb ram is not an issue.
The biggest issue around this generation would be if you have a spinning hard drive, you’d want to replace that even with the cheapest used ssd you can find anywhere asap.
Arch is fun and you should try it at some point but it’s not “faster” than Debian or mint or whatever, it mostly just comes down to your desktop environment and web browser.
or firefox --help
it’s crazy that the most reliable laptop I own is more than 10 years old
kde is pretty enough, it’s not exactly trendy but I feel they’re going the best they could do while keeping information density
is that on x11 or wayland? that works fine for me in wayland
if you’re doing kde then i think debian would make more sense (their netinstaller is very good)
your display is plugged into the gpu? then it should just work
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I do this exact thing on my network so I know it works, but why are you trying to downgrade https to http? if you’ve set up dns-01 properly it should just work with https.
how did you configure dns-01?
and you to your parents’ basement?
every person of a particular age is the exact same, as we all know
they’re not unusable but you can definitely notice there’s some Google fuckery going on with them
in my opinion a big requirement is longevity. If I’m going to recommend a distro to someone new to Linux, I don’t want them to go back to w*ndows because their distro gets unsupported. That’s mainly why I like mint, Debian and arch.
as much as I like Wayland, I don’t think it’s a hard requirement yet. I like mint because it’s extremely well polished. You really have to try it out to actually see it, but it’s insanely well done.