What would you say is the most reliable, "it just works" distro currently? (sh.itjust.works)

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Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but I've had a lot of problems in my previous attempts to switch to Linux, so I'd like to create a list of distros to try out, and see what works for me. I'm mostly expecting to be doing basic office work and light gaming via Steam.

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[-] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Not very. X11 is still widely used and works fine. Wayland is the future, but you'll probably be fine either way.

I copied this table from here: https://www.linuxteck.com/x11-vs-wayland/

[-] SecondComingOfPheusie@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

Regarding its architecture, the table says about Wayland the following

Single unified Compositor handles everything

While this has been true in practice, this isn't dictated. For example, very recently, we're finally seeing the decouplement of the compositor from the window manager. Granted, this is still a very recent development and we don't know if others will follow suit. But I'm excited to see where this will lead us.

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