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Oh come on, I've been a Linux enthusiast for over a decade now and it's been years since I've even touched xorg.conf, installed a kernel that didn't come from a

Oh come on, I've been a Linux enthusiast for over a decade now and it's been years since I've even touched xorg.conf, installed a kernel that didn't come from a standard repo, or had trouble rebooting due to a change I made to the system. Linux has gotten significantly less painful over the years, and it's not just that I'm more familiar with it now. Installing a mainstream distro these days is easier than the last time I installed Windows (granted, that was XP). I finally caved and started using a Mac for work. I was afraid that I would like it so much that I would just have to buy one for home, but I actually find Linux is still pleasant to use, I still think I prefer it over Mac OS.

hobarrera 10y ago
My life has been great these last years, and mostly due to this: https://xkcd.com/963/ https://xkcd.com/963/
- pawadu 10y ago
  What distros are you people using? Mine doesn't even come with xorg.conf anymore. (with that said, cant wait for Wayland to finally happen) I have a news for you people: some distros
  - hobarrera 10y ago
    Neither does mine. That's why life has been great for years!
colemickens 10y ago
Not only that, I don't even run X as my root display server. Sure, XWayland is around, but only because of Chromium apps (`google-chrome-unstable`, `visual-studio-code-nightly-bin`, `slack-desktop`, `riot-web`). And the best part is, Wayland (Ozone) support is already in Chromium, it's just not really enabled right now.
- naibafo 10y ago
  sadly I have yet to come across a functioning tiling window manager for wayland.
  - colemickens 10y ago
    Sway (written in C, I contributed the libinput config), Way-Cooler (written in Rust, if of any interest) and Orbment all ride on top of 'wlc'. They're all at least somewhat functional. I think there's a few others but I haven't tried any of them.
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    - naibafo 10y ago
      Thanks, I will keep an eye on sway. :)

hobarrera 10y ago

My life has been great these last years, and mostly due to this: https://xkcd.com/963/ https://xkcd.com/963/

pawadu 10y ago
What distros are you people using? Mine doesn't even come with xorg.conf anymore. (with that said, cant wait for Wayland to finally happen) I have a news for you people: some distros
- hobarrera 10y ago
  Neither does mine. That's why life has been great for years!

colemickens 10y ago

Not only that, I don't even run X as my root display server. Sure, XWayland is around, but only because of Chromium apps (`google-chrome-unstable`, `visual-studio-code-nightly-bin`, `slack-desktop`, `riot-web`). And the best part is, Wayland (Ozone) support is already in Chromium, it's just not really enabled right now.

naibafo 10y ago
sadly I have yet to come across a functioning tiling window manager for wayland.
- colemickens 10y ago
  Sway (written in C, I contributed the libinput config), Way-Cooler (written in Rust, if of any interest) and Orbment all ride on top of 'wlc'. They're all at least somewhat functional. I think there's a few others but I haven't tried any of them.
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  - naibafo 10y ago
    Thanks, I will keep an eye on sway. :)