Fixin to reimage my laptop away from the #enshittification that #Windows11 has wrought. I'm not a programmer and don't have any special software/needs.
What's everyone #Dailydriver for #Linux #Desktop now days?
(Edit: I daily drove Mint for 5 years an all my home servers are debian, so not a "new" *nix user. Thanks for the contributions, please keep them coming! )
@iaintshootinmis I recommend Fedora KDE personally and use it pretty much everywhere. It's a high-quality @kde experience on @fedora that is distinguished by both being stable and being fresh. The latest KDE Plasma software is shipped to users and Fedora works closely with KDE to develop the future of the experience together. And the community around Fedora KDE is awesome.
The Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is a powerful Fedora-based operating system utilizing the KDE Plasma Desktop as the main user interface. Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop comes with many pre-selected top quality applications that suit all modern desktop use cases - from online communication like web browsing, instant messaging and electronic mail correspondence, through multimedia and entertainment, to an advanced productivity suite, including office applications and enterprise grade personal information management. All KDE applications are well integrated, with a similar look and feel and an easy to use interface, accompanied by an outstanding graphical appearance.
@dennis I don't know what'd convince you to move, but here are the reasons I think it's awesome:
- Latest stable KDE software all the time
- Close relationship with KDE developers
- Wayland by default
- PipeWire for audio
- Easy to collaborate and contribute to
@Conan_Kudo latest KDE is a good one. I had to wait for months to get the big update fixing the weird multiple displays issue. I used Windows until it was released.
I don't know the difference between Wayland and X(?). And why Wayland is better to its alternative.
@dennis KDE Plasma Wayland provides a newer graphics architecture that is simpler, more performant, and offers capabilities that weren't possible before, such as:
- Different DPI per display
- Variable Refresh Rate (FreeSync/G-SYNC)
- (Eventually) HDR
Wayland is the basis of the modern graphics pipeline for KDE Plasma, while X11 is the legacy one.
@Conan_Kudo I installed Fedora KDE, and going away from the computer for a while so the screens went to sleep. It did not like that. Now the desktop wallpaper is glitching, cannot right-click the desktop. Most of the desktop environment is gone.
I managed to open the display configuration and rearranged my screens, applied. And that solved it. (Rearranged back immediately after without problems)
This seems like the same problem I had on Ubuntu earlier this year.
@Conan_Kudo @kde yes sure, I'll try to bring something together there.
I just don't know how to describe how the problem is visualized. Or what component it could relate to. 😝
@dennis @kde If you don't know which one, just use "general" for plasmashell: https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=plasmashell&component=general
It'll be moved to the correct place if need be.
IAintShootinMis
Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) 
Dennis