Who uses left or right to determine directions in the field of Geography can’t burn anyone. He should have called it west side park.

Fully agree!

As a Linux user for more than 10 years now, I can not really understand why so many people switch from Windows to CachyOS.

Yes, CachyOS is great. In general I see the advantage of Arch based distros, but only if one knows what they are doing. It’s great on fresh installs, but over time users need to fix issues and make decisions and this only works if they know what they are doing.

Similar wis NixOS. Great distro, but not for low maintanance and beginners. If you just want something that runs super stable and you don’t need to fix anything, go for Debian. And there are a lot of options between Debian and CachyOS.

Clem, the lead dev of the Cinnamon project, wrote in the last blog post, that they only need to migrate the cinnamon screensaver from X11 to Wayland and that this is the last piece for full Wayland support. See https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4991

Seems like the upcoming Mint release will fully support Cinnamon with Wayland, even if X11 might still be the default.

I had issues with Solaar detecting my devices when plugging the dongle in a USB hub in the past, even when the connected devices worked. Maybe you can try to connect the dongle to another port, in best case directly on the Notebook or PC mainboard, just to make sure that this is not the issue.

This being said, it works for me on even with a USB hub on a freshly installed Fedora on a new PC.

Super important. I do also choose a DE first and look for a distro that supports it out of the box second.

This being said, while I think Gnome looks amazing, it’s whole UX is killing me. I tried it over and over again, because it looks so beautyful. But it always starts to frustrate and annoy me.

I was ling term Cinnamon user and recently switched to KDE Plasma. Luckily, as Linux users we have a choice.

It’s a more than 4 years old blog post.

I can’t tell much about the things that the writer complains about. But concerning Cosmic: I think a new additional DE is a win. People who like it can use it, others can skip it. More variation means more choice.

Personally: I find Cosmic still a bit barebone. It is very fast. It think it looks quite good (besides their wallpapers). It’s not yet there, where it needs to be for me to use it as a daily driver, but I find it impressive what System 76 released in their first final version.

Gnome is the most beautyful DE in my opinion, but I find it’s UX absolut horrible. I hate usining it without quite some extensions and I do absolutely not use it. Look at it, yeah. But using it is not intuitive at all for me.

Luckily, there are other DE’s I like. That’s the beauty about Linux.

lol.

Thx.

Sounds like the setup can be quite complicated. ;)

I might need to dive into that topic.

Sure, it always does.

I’m fine choosing the best fitting distro from all these points mentioned in the post you linked.

Unfortunately the post does not cover the only question I have: Is there a distro with specially good multi Keyboard layout support.

For most people - including myself - this is never an issue, because they use only one layout. But especially people from countries with non latin alphabets really need this.

No, thx.

You’re right! I just checked and it was a dedicated key to switch the layout. That makes it easier!

I think one thing that bothered my wife when she used my notebook was the keyboard shortcut to switch the language.

Thanks! I’ll check out the videos.

True! Most stable system I ever used.

Same here. I really like it and bought the Premium version already to support the developer. It’s not on the same level of customization and not as feature rich as Nova, but it’s quite nice. And it’s under active development.

I think, because of Fedoras atomic desktops. I didn’t use any of them yet, but it seems like Flatpaks should be used there, since one should (or can?) not install tradional packages there. Therefore Fedora provides the flatpaks anyway and they can be used on the non atomic desktops as well.

Another reason is, that you might not be able to install the latest version of an application as rpm package if a required dependency in the repo is outdated. A Flatpak usually does not have the issue since a newer version would include the fitting runtime. This said, I do think its not this big of an issue for fedora which is usually quite up to date. But if you run a distribution with LTS releases or something like Debian you will much more likely have older dependencies in your repositiry.