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Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 2 months ago (19 children)

A lot of the pressure is due to people transitioning to Mint from Win10 without understanding that they're moving to an XWS system rather than Wayland. If you want Wayland, go with Arch/Cachy. If you want stability, stick with Mint and X11.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 20 points 2 months ago (6 children)

If you want Wayland, go with Arch/Cachy

That's a terrible recommendation for new users...

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If all they want a computer for is Steam, they're going to get a better experience on Wayland. Cinnamon is built on X.

[–] flynnguy@programming.dev -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is an experimental Wayland for Mint... on the login screen there is an icon in the upper right. Clicking that allows you to select the experimental Wayland version or X11... there's one other but I forget what it is at the moment. So it is possible to run Mint and Wayland, just not recommended.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, right. I never see the login screen, so I keep forgetting it.

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