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Since i see so much linux talk on lemmy i got curious and watched a video about the common distros. How true is the information in this video? The person hardly describes why debian and arch are just better than every other distro. At least i'm definitely now curious about Mint or something for gaming.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just give me a black screen and a white blinking cursor, I know how to do the rest from there.

That's exactly what happens on opensuse when I log into to Wayland. Kwin also crashes 100 % of the time. I'm using a 1050ti.

So my default is always x11.

Can you shed a little light how to fix the Wayland issue.

Thank you.

Edit. I misread your post. Its not the command line but the GUI. Also its a black screen with a mouse cursor followed by a kwin crash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've never used Wayland, x11 is fine for me.

I have also had issues with Wayland, but I have heard issues with Nvidia cards and Wayland.