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For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).

Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.

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[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

For what its worth, I know that while a lot of the hardcore Linux community seems to absolutely despise Ubuntu/Canonical because of snaps and whatnot, I don't think there is anything actually wrong with using Ubuntu if that is what works for you. Use the best tool for the job!

[–] ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Hey hold on, I also hate Ubuntu because of how awful gnome is. Can't blame everything on snap!

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

touche. i like gnome a lot, but i wanted to try plasma 6 on another distro

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Been rocking Manjaro with Gnome for a long time, but then Plasma 6 came out, I switched over and couldn't be happier.

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