that’s mainly because of Wayland’s security model I think, it’s trading a tiny bit of convenience for lots more security in terms of things like preventing easy keylogging.

You can still do keylogging in wayland but that has to be done at the compositor or evdev layer, which requires root access or control of the DE, which makes it more secure. I’m sure you could write something in C to do this though

It might be an annoyance for you and I get that, but your small annoyance improves security for lots more people than you realise. I’m sure you can adapt to not using the script though (I also use multiple layouts and I work fine without a script like this)

yeah you sometimes need to force applications to run with xwayland, for qt apps I think you just assert the environmental variable:

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb

that usually works for me

All my experiences with amd gpus have been fantastic, their drivers work beautifully and when they have even a slight issue it’s been problems with protocols adoption and whatnot, never the driver.

It’s such a contrast to the dogshit experience I’ve had with all the nvidia gpus I use, I really can’t think of a reason except cuda that a Linux user should get a nvidia device.

I hope when the people adopting Linux now start building their next pc demand for nvidia noticeably shrinks. Or maybe they’d be bankrupt by then because of the ai bubble crash

probably not, I move SSDs between computers all the time and linux always just works

very different story for windows installations though 🤮

is winboat and Winapps basically the same thing?

also that’s definitely not going to have adequate performance, you’d need something like looking glass and that requires a spare gpu or sriov/gvt-g. it’s probably easier to set up with a standalone vm

that might be true, but no one learns calculus in a ball pit

security you don’t understand is security you don’t have. windows’ exploit mitigations don’t work because the average user doesn’t understand them and can easily be guided into disabling them.

the weakest attack surface is the stupidity of the user and that’s not gonna change however much you try to make your os secure

why not just wipe the ssd and put Linux on it? dual boot should work fine, and if you have problems with it you could post it here

yeah you could, depending on if it can run a mainline Linux vm or is supported by postmarketos

you’d just need to port forward to your phone from the router and set up DDNS (if you don’t have a public static ip). same thing as any other server.

I’d highly recommend making the phone headless and controlling it though SSH from another device. it’s way more ergonomic.

my entire phone server setup consumes less than 1W at idle :3

and the “builtin UPS” lasts for a few hours

one of the best things about a phone based server is that it consumes basically no power at all

you can actually speed it up a ton by making baloo only index file names and not file content, and selecting specific directories to index

room heater

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.

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)

desktop computer

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)