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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And for being one it's shockingly stable. It's in a bit of flux right now as things are between X11/Wayland, but it's definitely not as iffy as bleeding-edge Arch or anything. :)

[–] unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah I'm on X11 for now, waiting on nvidia to be ready before trying wayland again. AMD users should be fine to use wayland though.