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Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance] (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Desktop crashes, oh there goes all my applikations that I started

I'm using KDE with a 1080ti. My desktop regularly crashes (it's some hardware issue, pretty sure my 1080ti is on its way out). I never lose any of my open applications. All that happens is the wallpaper goes black, the panels disappear. Then about 5 seconds later the wallpaper and panels reload like nothing happened. Sometimes a panel widget will be "stuck" in a loading state, but opening then closing its settings refreshes it.

Aside from that no issues. And no crashing on any of my other systems with KDE.