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The best distro for newcomers is the one their mentor in the local LUG is using. Any other way is just a recipe for misery. > Fedora KDE, but their input metho

by bmn__ 4y ago

The best distro for newcomers is the one their mentor in the local LUG is using. Any other way is just a recipe for misery. > Fedora KDE, but their input methods are completely broken That sucks. I can say with confidence that this is not the case on openSUSE with KDE. I have fcitx5, fcitx5-chinese-addons and a few other relevant packages installed and it works fine.

WhyNotHugo 4y ago
I tried OpenSUSE and it had scaling issues. Basically, everything was tiny (to a point where it was unreadable). OpenSUSE used X11 by default (rather than Wayland), and configuring scaling on X11 has never fully worked for me, so I didn't want to sink time into that. It didn't seem that Wayland was an option. I admit I didn't have a huge amount of patience or put a lot of time into OpenSUSE; after wasting a lot of time into trying to make input work on Fedora [and failing], we basically went through multiple distros in a weekend and quickly moved on whenever one had obvious issues rather than try and figure out if it was possible to tinker around it. Do you know if X11 is still the default or Wayland if is well supported? Or any other advise for this scenario?
- bmn__ 4y ago
  I observe no scaling issues, I use the settings below and it works just fine. System Settings → Hardware → Display and Monitor → Display Configuration → Global scale [125%] System Settings → Appearance → Fonts → Adjust All Fonts… and raise the size to 16pt.
- ssnistfajen 4y ago
  When was the last time you tried OpenSUSE? Both distributions of OpenSUSE with GNOME now use Wayland by default. As for KDE unfortunately it still needs a bit of time for Wayland sessions to be more stable. They are perfectly usable now, but face potentially more headaches comapred to GNOME Wayland sessions. As for Chinese input, fcitx + google pinyin worked just fine on Manjaro KDE for me. Word prediction isn't very good but it's generally usable. For more details see here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fcitx https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fcitx
  - WhyNotHugo 4y ago
    This was in October 2022. I might give OpenSUSE/KDE another shot. Any ideas what's broken on their wayland session?
    - ssnistfajen 4y ago
      https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers If using Wayland is a hard requirement then I would recommend choosing GNOME over KDE for the desktop environment. I've been using KDE on X11 just fine for now.

by bmn__ 4y ago

WhyNotHugo 4y ago

I tried OpenSUSE and it had scaling issues. Basically, everything was tiny (to a point where it was unreadable). OpenSUSE used X11 by default (rather than Wayland), and configuring scaling on X11 has never fully worked for me, so I didn't want to sink time into that. It didn't seem that Wayland was an option. I admit I didn't have a huge amount of patience or put a lot of time into OpenSUSE; after wasting a lot of time into trying to make input work on Fedora [and failing], we basically went through multiple distros in a weekend and quickly moved on whenever one had obvious issues rather than try and figure out if it was possible to tinker around it. Do you know if X11 is still the default or Wayland if is well supported? Or any other advise for this scenario?

bmn__ 4y ago
I observe no scaling issues, I use the settings below and it works just fine. System Settings → Hardware → Display and Monitor → Display Configuration → Global scale [125%] System Settings → Appearance → Fonts → Adjust All Fonts… and raise the size to 16pt.
ssnistfajen 4y ago
When was the last time you tried OpenSUSE? Both distributions of OpenSUSE with GNOME now use Wayland by default. As for KDE unfortunately it still needs a bit of time for Wayland sessions to be more stable. They are perfectly usable now, but face potentially more headaches comapred to GNOME Wayland sessions. As for Chinese input, fcitx + google pinyin worked just fine on Manjaro KDE for me. Word prediction isn't very good but it's generally usable. For more details see here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fcitx https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fcitx
- WhyNotHugo 4y ago
  This was in October 2022. I might give OpenSUSE/KDE another shot. Any ideas what's broken on their wayland session?
  - ssnistfajen 4y ago
    https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers If using Wayland is a hard requirement then I would recommend choosing GNOME over KDE for the desktop environment. I've been using KDE on X11 just fine for now.