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Kortaffel:

--- Quote from: tle on September 19, 2025, 04:18:43 am ---XFCE runs flawlessly as expected.

It's unfortunate that many X11-based WM are not picked up by GDM (Wayland only now) so I have to use SDDM instead.

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I wouldn't use Gnome. Gnome is a very political project these days. Their devs pride themselves with hating X11 and "having killed X11". They only support wayland.
These people hate X11 and everyone who uses it.

tle:
I hold no strong opinion about X11 simply because my usecase does not really care if it is X11 or Wayland. Having said that I think I could understand why they decided so, sometimes it takes lots of guts to ditch the legacy baggage to start fresh. It might lead to the same path all over again.

DKnoto:
Better is always the enemy of good. I had been using Gnome since 2011, starting with version three. I was very satisfied at the time. Unfortunately, at some point, the creators of Gnome began to abandon quality and good ideas in favor of irrelevant oddities. They didn't fix significant bugs for years. Without plugins from other programmers, the environment became unusable. The final straw was the forced transition from X11 to Wayland. If Wayland were X12 and eliminated the bugs of the old environment with a minimal number of new ones, I wouldn't complain. But for users who rely heavily on X11 features, it's a disaster. After years of development, the Wayland environment is only a source of new problems and total fragmentation with minimal functionality. At the moment, I have already switched to XFCE. And as soon as DRM from FreeBSD works on Talos 2, I think I will abandon Linux.

MauryG5:
I think the main problem, however, is the software available on this FreeBSD, as is the general problem for us Power users. So I wonder how you could switch to a system that is likely even less widespread than Linux and therefore will have even less software available. Moreover, how can the optimizations, which are already lacking on Linux, be found on FreeBSD...

MPC7500:
At least tpearson seems to have a soft spot for BSD. He is quite active on ravynOS FreeBSD 8)

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