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On 2025-04-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 4/18/25 05:23, Borax Man wrote:
>> On 2025-04-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:14:54 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>
>>>> The desktops being roughly similar is only a necessity for users who
>>>> were already old when they learned MacOS or Windows and did so
>>>> stubbornly. Considering how difficult it was for them to adopt that
>>>> much, you wouldn't want to put an entirely different operating system in
>>>> front of them. For anyone else, a switch from Windows to Gnome or
>>>> Cinnamon shouldn't be such a chore.
>>>
>>> On Linux, “different GUIs” is not the same as “different operating
>>> systems”. Linux offers more variety of GUIs than all the rest of the
>>> computing world put together.
>> 
>> Wont the obsolence of X11 put and end to that?  Many Desktop
>> Environments and Window Managers won't work at all on Wayland, from what
>> I understand.
>
> Only Gnome and KDE seem to fully support Wayland. For everything else, 
> it's experimental. That's part of why I'm not using Linux Mint at the 
> moment. Cinnamon isn't scheduled to use Wayland until the 23.x releases 
> which means that if you have a laptop and enjoy using gestures, you 
> won't be getting full support there.

I'm in no hurry for Wayland. If Linux Mint makes Wayland the default, I hope 
I'll still be able to revert to X11 with a one line change in the 
configuration.

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