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The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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'El Reg' as those fucking faggots call themselves in their disgusting fucking Britishist self-appellation has always been written by retarded gorilla niggers.
Dick Speed is, according to his bio, their "Microsoft ecosystem reporter". No wonder he's advocating for the fake excuse for a windowing system. He's motivated by the same hatred that Microsoft was when they gave Poettring a seven figure salary to pay him back for his decades of sabotaging the Linux desktop.
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I've never heard a single actual Linux user say they prefer Gayland. It's more like the Vista/Win 8 of Linux.
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To be fair, that's like asking a Windows user what they think of GDI+. If the answer is anything but "I don't know what that is", you're talking to a weirdo.
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Another reason why linux mint wins for new users, as it still uses X11 for Cinnamon and keeps wayland in experimental limbo
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Whenever I get into a conversation, or find myself talking about Linux to a curious user. 99% of the time, I usually recommend Linux mint. Brain dead easy to install. Everything works straight out of the box. Syntax in the terminal is easy to learn. Light weight all that fun stuff. And not to mention it comes with a very user friendly GUI. It's honestly the best "New user" Distro. I really hope that others in the community really understand when it comes to getting more folks to switch over, it shouldn't be a debate with multiple options. I'm not saying that Mint is literally the best or anything like that. I'm only saying that it's the best for a new user.
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The only people that prefer Wayland over X11 are the ones that never actually had to write applications for it. Once you touch/learn Wayland's internals, you come to the conclusion that it is just badly designed, even worse than X11 honestly.
If Mint used a better package manager than APT it would even be better but to be honest... A newbie does not care, as long Mint works for them. They will either keep using Mint or (if the time comes) start experimenting with other distributions until they find the one that suits their workflow and/or interests.
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I learned the hard way over the past ten days that if you rely heavily on livestreaming, screensharing and hosting watch parties, Linux might not be the way to go for the time-being.
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even on x11 it doesn't always work.
its usually luck. depending on your compositer, video driver, application you wanna record and application you're using to record, it may or may not work.
all of these things can affect it.
I've even heard that some desktop environments on some combinations of these things can also affect it.
it happens on windows as well, some apps and games don't work well with some recording software.
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This was what I used first, and I do think you're right overall.
I do think there is an arguement for something like the gnome desktop on something like ububtu. that has a slightly different feel than windows, but is still intuitive enough, that that any new user won't actually struggle with figuring things out. Mostly because it does feel a little different, and might get them in the mindset that linux is a different opperating system, and some things just are different.
The main reason I wouldn't say to recommend that. Is because mint is a really good choice, and the other thing you said is definitely correct. Adding in extra choices for distro or desktop will just make it seem more complex, and harder to decide.
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Isn't obs the standard for that kind of thing?
From what I've heard it works really well for at least x11.
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tell me you use discord without telling me you use discord
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After a fresh Debian install on my laptop I had all kinds of weird visual bugs on my DE, in addition to some software I use having even weirder bugs that rendered them unusable, until I realized that it was using fucking Wayland by default. Changing it to X11 fixed literally everything. Fuck every single one of these absolute faggots trying to push Wayland and shit talking X11.
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I'm a complete n00b when it comes to Linux, which led me to choosing Mint. It was a rough few days learning how to install things, how to update the kernel, and how to get Proton up and running (I had to reformat a drive I had dedicated to Steam from NTFS to EXT4). I read a few forum posts about Wayland, but didn't know where to install it, or if it came with the Mint distro.
I also read about PipeAudio, but the thought of piping everything thru the mic seemed kinda ugh, especially the thought of everyone in Discord voice chat hearing themselves in the stream audio.
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"echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE" will tell you what you are currently running. It will almost certainly be x11, if you want to switch to Wayland and are on mint 21.3 it will depend on your desktop environment/display manager but since you just said mint I'm gonna assume you meant the default cinnamon DE mint comes with and whatever it's display manager is. If so you can go to the login screen and click the thingy I have highlighted in the image below which will open the menu to switch to Wayland experimental.
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Discord just runs like absolute hot garbage. You're almost better off running it in a browser if you want to use it since it's basically built like a web app and uses Web RTC anyways. If you stream a lot it would be wise to learn OBS (even if you go back to windows) and using a restreaming or virtual camera/audio set up. It would be smart to look into pipewire for managing your audio sources and 100% look into installing qjackctl for a GUI interface since you're new from windows. You'll be able to have full control over video and audio for your discord streams via OBS and feeding it into w/e service you want to use.
It'll all seem very overwhelming at first but once you get it figured out you'll wonder why you put up with the BS discord wants nitro subs for.