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Of all the distros out there, they went with Mint?
They have a similar partnership with Fedora
I am semi-literate in "computers". That means I can build my own PC, do no coding, but manage to troubleshoot most things by sheer stubborness, search and the odd question on a "forum" In other words not afraid of tech.
I can't be bothered to sift through endless overengineered BS for a PC to do the few things I need it to do these days. Web browser, Steam and streaming, while not scraping every ounce of personal data and sending it to various entities for nefarious purposes. I have Mint, it works out of the box and I don't have to tinker with it, but enough customizability if I want to.
What's wrong with Mint?
Uses the heavily deprecated XOrg display manager. XOrg has no isolation of windows from each other, meaning any app can record your screen without notice. All XOrg apps can also log keyboard presses arbitrarily. Since all apps share the same display server, they can easy correlate keypresses (text) with what app it is entered in, kinda like Windows Recall. Cinnamon, Mate, and XFCE all use XOrg. Cinnamon still doesnt default to Wayland.
Sure but Xorg has been like that forever and until recently distros started to default Wayland because of Nvidia, and there aren't many of them yet. Also some programs don't run well with Xwayland, some don't run at all. You're right from a technical privacy point but it's not the end of the world and it doesn't have to be privacy-invading, just don't run proprietary stuff. By the way, CInnamon will switch to Wayland, when the experimental support is mature enough. Don't know about MATE of XFCE.
XFCE will within the next 2 years.
That's nice to hear.
Bruh every desktop besides window managers and kde/gnome are still on x11 mostly.
Edit: cinnamon and xfce and lxqt has experimental/preview wayland. (updated to put lxqt in experimental)
Yes, most DEs use X11. I dont think that is a good thing. XFCE will take a bit to implement Wayland (approx 2 years according to their update schedule).
I said it has beta wayland because of this news
...is that all? that it uses XOrg?
https://arewewaylandyet.com/
Nah, I personally dont like its look, Ubuntu base, and slow update schedule. I think Bluefin or Aurora would be better starting distros.
Aren't a slow update schedule and a closer look to home better for newbies?
not dealing with immutability no thanks.
Better for newbies because it is harder to break.
Yeah the upside of immutable distros, but I think nix implantation of immutablity is really great but nix has a learning curve and your .nix might get messy. + many of these immutable distros don't offer many desktops.
Universal Blue and Wayblue offer most of the desktop environments available for Linux.
talking about cinnamon xfce etc
i wish that site showed other desktops aswell rather then apps.
fair, but i understand the choice as that's a lot more work to do along with having to adopt some sort of arbitrary inclusion standard
l also wanted desktops as well due to it being hard finding a list of desktops that support wayland i just see gnome and kde + window managers.
bruh whats up with the mint hate.