HouseWolf

I got quite a few friends wanting to avoid Windows 11 and taking a serious look at Linux.

Sadly less than half who've tried it out have wanted to stick with it, Due to technical problems or some neche software not being available/having a suitable alternative.

I keep hearing this from people but as someone who plays a lot of multiplayer FPS the only game I've had to give up is Rust.

Even most EAC games seem to work if the developers allow Proton/Wine users.

I've noticed it more and more over the years how people will fight tooth and nail to defend a product for no other reason than self validation.

I've even had one person try to sell me on OperaGX as if they were reading off an AD, When I asked them technical questions about it they just pulled the conversation back to selling up the gimmicks. I finally straight asked them why they were advertising something for a company they don't work for and they just got offended. Was kinda a surreal experience.

Even though I don't have much interest in the Steam Deck itself, seeing the quick progress of Proton and games I regularly play working on the Deck is what got me to seriously consider Linux and finally switch my desktop over.

Been daily driving EndeavourOS for over a month now and no regrets.

Corpo's and social media "designers" who would throw out their own mother because she's "outdated"

Honestly as someone who doesn't use Gnome... I can't really tell much of a difference, Seems like a strange thing to build hype over.

So my first exposure to Arch was from my one friend who used Arch Linux daily, He was also the type to mess around with and replace core system utilities which of course led to his system breaking a whole bunch.

I avoided using Arch based distros for a while when I first started getting into Linux because of seeing my friend have to rebuild his system every week, When I finally tried EndeavourOS it ended up being the most stable distro out of the box even vs a lot of "just works" distros people recommended.

I've finally been able to daily drive Linux for over a month without having to switch back to my Windows drive at all.

The main problem with all this is the average user doesn't know or even care what DRM is, they just want their sites to work and they'll take the easiest route to get there, which will be switching to google approved browsers/devices.

I'd argue even most "techy" people will just give up any real fight once they can't watch Youtube anymore.

I'm using SDDM which I know supports lunching Wayland because I'm had it work in virtual machines before.

Alright so after seeing your comment I decided to give it another try.

I'm running Plasma 5.27.7 which is what came when I installed when I grabbed EndeavourOS. But it doesn't come with the Wayland session included so I grabbed plasma-wayland-session from the AUR, And same issue as last time I can't launch it from the login screen.

I know people have gotten it working fine but on my hardware for whatever reason I've had little luck.

Yeah Wayland support apparently doesn't come shipped with the KDE install on EndeavourOS, Last time to tried to get it running was on an older version of Ubuntu a few months back.

I'll install it and try it out now tho thanks.

When I tried Wayland on Gnome using my RTX3080 it either wouldn't load into desktop or if I did it would lead to a bunch of visual glitches.

Haven't tried it through KDE yet tho as it requires some backend hackery to even allow you enable Wayland with an Nvidia card.

Edit: So some people have been able to get Wayland working on Nvidia fine so it's worth trying out yourself, Tho I've personally not had any luck.