Evan Leibovitch via Talk wrote on 2025-09-27 23:57:
*2. Arch Linux is even less for me*
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Watching Arch install demos (and I watched many) takes me back to the days of Linux Installfests, when local enthusiasts were /necessary/ to help people through the activity of getting Linux on their PC.
Suspicion confirmed - the installation is a big hurdle.
There was this DIY attitude, that you couldn't understand Linux (and in the eyes of some you shouldn't be using it) without knowing how it worked under the hood. Arch is very much a throwback to those days, but in 2025 it comes across almost as a backlash against Linux For The Masses.
It's probably worth it to me installing Arch on a spare computer, just for the learning experience.
*4. Wayland is a non-issue*
Except for Discord, for some reason that's still a sore point. Everything else just works for me exactly as it did under X11, and that's not a Hyprland thing. Staying with my trusty Fedora KDE still keeps me on Weyland -- and Plasma made the transition very, very well.
Good to hear, I have hopes for Wayland.
* First and foremost, the *ghostty* terminal emulator. It's a remarkable improvement over the stock KDE or GNOME terminal app that many of us use. Also available for MacOS; * *yazi*, a text-based file manager that will display graphic thumbnails under ghostty and kitty; * *neovim*, a modern update of the traditional Unix text edito*r* * *fd* which does what find does but faster and easier; * *fastfetch* for a quick and useful system snapshot; * you'd never think that someone could improve on `cd` but *zoxide* is exactly that * and finally *fzf*, a "fuzzy" file finder
I'm always happy to hear people looking at new ways to do current (or new) things. I may check out ghostty - these new GPU-accelerated terminals are interesting (and, pretty). Thanks for the extensive report on how it went.