Longtime Mint stickler here, never developed a taste for any other distro schools (Arch, Fedora, other *buntus and Debians). But tried out MX after a long period of deferring and I am genuinely blown away. This distro has everything I could have ever ask for - Debian stability coupled with advanced hardware support (with more recent zen kernels and drivers), a solid opinionated Plasma DE setup that is both minimalist and all-encompassing at the same time, and a full stock of sensible and pragmatic utilities to cover the boring stuff.

Mint’s relative lethargy at migrating to wayland has been increasingly becoming a sore point due to the sheer practical difference it makes (especially in terms of multi-monitor HiDPI and fractional scaling, in addition to security and performance). MX KDE has all that covered and then some. It’s the first time I had to genuinely stretch to find any fault. The only complaint I have is that they aren’t letting me post this testimonial in the MX forum because it doesn’t accept anon-aliased emails for logins.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    6·
    15 hours ago

    Mint’s relative lethargy at migrating to wayland has been increasingly becoming a sore point due to the sheer practical difference it makes

    I mean, pretty much every desktop environment that’s not Gnome or KDE has been dragging its feet. AFAIK Cinnamon is on track to be *the first smaller DE with full wayland support. I understand that you don’t want to wait if you’re actually interested in some of wayland’s features, though.

    *one of

    • who@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      I mean, pretty much every desktop environment that’s not Gnome or KDE has been dragging its feet.

      To be fair, migrating a desktop environment from X11 to Wayland is a lot of work, Wayland still hasn’t reached feature parity, and most desktop environments are maintained by very few people with scant resources. It’s no surprise that the big ones are ahead of the others.

      • balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.orgOP
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I tried COSMIC on PopOS and had the same sour experience that LTT famously did in his recent video. And honestly, considering that it is visually and functionally no different than GNOME (which is already on wayland and much more stable), I don’t know why they’re even bothering with it.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        2·
        12 hours ago

        I already edited my comment to say “one of the first” 3 hours ago.

        Also yes, I consider every linux DE that isn’t Gnome or KDE “smaller”.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
          2·
          11 hours ago

          I assume edit changes take a while before they are updated on all other instances. I had similar “issues” in the past too. It’s pretty annoying. When I replied it didn’t show the edited version.

      • OUwUO@programming.dev
        2·
        13 hours ago

        I suppose COSMIC technically never migrated/transitioned from X11 to Wayland, because it’s been Wayland-only from inception.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
          1·
          12 hours ago

          I should have quoted the part I am referring to:

          Cinnamon is on track to be *the first smaller DE with full wayland support. I understand that you don’t want to wait if you’re actually interested in some of wayland’s features, though.

          I meant that there is a desktop environment with full Wayland support. And my question was if s/he considers COSMIC to be a smaller DE, that could qualify this statement.