If squeezing out every extra byte of memory is important for something you're doing (like numeric computing) you should just be doing it in a terminal session anyway.
GDK_BACKEND=x11 audacity in the terminal, you could even just write a separate .desktop launcher for X11 and Wayland sessions respectively that just set each env to their own session, something I feel could be a good thing for applications to ship with normally actually. I don't know if I am retarded and this is common knowledge (very possible) but for other retards, this is why this happens.GDK_BACKEND=wayland env variable. On KDE Plasma you just right click Audacity in the start menu and click "Edit Application" and you should see it say x11 instead of wayland on GDK_BACKEND. This was making me go crazy because on my X11 session it worked fine but under Wayland it was just fucked. When it would boot up the splash screen would just be black for instance instead of showing the logo of Audacity. If that happens to you too, then it's running under Xwayland. If you are like me and torturing yourself by trying to learn Wayland because "it is the future of Linux™" as decided by assholes then I have now learned from this experience to always first check if something is running under Xwayland by using the xlsclients command in the terminal which lists all current Xwayland applications running on your system. Same with any game issues under Proton, try running it with the Wayland flag on in launch settings ala PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command%. IIRC you may need Proton GE for this which has the experimental Wayland Wine integrated. Could fix whatever problem you are having like it did for me on Brotato or make it worse, it will remove the Alt+Tab Steam integration on any game because Wayland does not support that yet, but it's worth trying ig.
Is LMDE actually useful? It feels more like a proof of concept than a practical alternative. Some people may really hate Ubuntu, but Mint already removes controlware such as Snap. The LMDE repos have fewer users and so will likely get less maintenance and slower updates. Also, it's Cinnamon-only, whereas some may favor another DE; regular Mint offers Xfce and MATE.
My guess is the biggest thing is to ensure Cinnamon does not accidentally have dependencies on Ubuntu or other Mint exclusive code. From what I've seen the only difference between it and Cinnamon Debian is that it has a nicer icon set and default themes.
yeah if u ditch ur desktop and get a steam deck with a dock thats fine
If those boys could read, I'm sure they'd be very upset.
Slightly off topic but Valve deserves more credit than you're giving it when it comes to PC gaming. You're probably not old enough to remember Microsoft in the Xbox 360 days but Microsoft was doing its damnest to kill off PC Gaming. They launched a half ass attempt to unify the Xbox and Windows gaming spaces with "Games For Windows" and tried very hard to shill one of the earliest cross platform games, Shadow Run which was a flop on PC. The issue why it failed to take off was 1. Microsoft's top engineers and developers preferred to work Xbox since the bonuses were better and 2. with the rocky release of Vista, Microsoft execs started questioning whether it was worth to support PC for gaming when the Xbox line had better margins and they could get more money if everyone was on Xbox. There was even open talks of stripping DirectX out of Windows to debloat it for corporate use. Games for Windows also had some of the shittiest DRM known to man which is why people didn't want to buy games from there.
I'm not saying Valve didn't do fuck-all, I'm saying that the SteamOS that people want is something that simply isn't going to happen. People want Windows but Linux, and unless you have 1:1 transparent parity with WinNT, which you'll never achieve on Linux, people will hate that SteamOS. Because you'll need to learn Linux, and people don't want to learn Linux. They want Windows from Valve. Basically, either make a switch to Linux now or shut the fuck up because SteamOS won't save you.
What the fuck does that even mean?
In theory someone could phish you. In reality google just wants to make the devs suck the realID cock while allowing for Chinese MSS honeypots and malicious actors.
Your link is busted.
I'm pretty sure it's the lack of proper NVidia support that keeps people from learning Linux.
Nvidia support is pretty decent on Linux now, watching the Xlibre chat a lot have been saying that they prefer Nvidia over AMD as the quality of AMD code is dropping. Let alone that if you want CUDA or any of the similar systems you have to use Nvidia because the AMD/ Intel equivalents don't have great Linux support
This is pretty outdated.