Don’t bother choosing. Use whatever the distro gives you until you actually have a reason to switch
I use arch btw. My distro doesn’t give me anything. I was on x11. Wanted to experiment a bit and now I’m configuring hyprland. Going well for me so far
Wayland. No screen tearing and it doubled my battery life.
hmm interested in the battery life comment. is this a thing? if I could push an extra 20 minutes or so I’d switch
is this a thing?
Honestly, I have no clue. With DWM I had like 3-4 hrs at max and now I am using DWL for 6-8 hrs.
What is also noticeable, is that closing the lid puts the laptop actually into sleep. Because with DWM it continued using the battery as if it was actually used.
I am not advanced user enough to tell what exactly caused this.
Wayland, because it’s faster, more stable, handles multi-monitor better, you can have animations while playing a game, no tearing, no fcking around window managers/compositors or shit, lower memory usage and 1:1 touchpad gestures
Wayland for better multimonitor support, scaling, and tear-free rendering.
Wayland if possible because it generally performes better and is actively maintained. Xorg if Wayland doesn’t support your system yet.
If you don’t know install a distro and use what comes with it by default and only worry about digging into the plumbing if something doesn’t work for you.
Ideally you let your distro worry about plumbing.
I think Mint is nice if you don’t need bleeding edge stuff. You can use Cinnamon which runs x11 but will eventually support Wayland.
I’ve heard good things about suse which has a rolling release option and supports gnome and KDE under Wayland.
Arch of course is a thing if you don’t mind a manual transmission as it were.
Personally I might pick Mint to get started.
I get screen tearing when gaming on x11 so i use wayland and I only switch to x11 if i need to screenshare on discord.
Wayland because X is owned by Elon Musk
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Another vote for your answer. I just can’t be bothered to troubleshoot Wayland on Void if X11 just works already for my purposes.
Wayland for fractional scaling compatibility for my weird laptop monitor.
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I’m in Wayland but that’s because I’m Intel Integrated. If it was Nvidia I might have leaned more towards X111
For most users, it doesn’t matter. Just go with whatever your preferred DE uses. I love Hyprland, which uses Wayland, so I use that. I also like bspwm, so I would also use Xorg for that.
Wayland has a few issues still. I have issues with zoom lately, for example. Share screen also has trouble sometimes.
Wayland. I like smooth and shiny and X is on the way out, even RH doesn’t want anything to do with it.
I love Wayland. But I go with X11 because fucking Slack. Video calls crash the whole thing on Wayland.
Edit: Debian 12, with Kde Plasma. The same thing happened with Gnome. It’s a known issue afaik
