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The Asahi after action report that wasn't

Don't worry, nothing bad, but my plans to call a week of using it, mostly for web surfing, but then that's most of my computer stuff, a good test kinda went haywire thanks to this thread.

My week went well running Asahi with the Cinnamon desktop. When I mentioned it on... I think it was the Reddit group for Asahi Linux, I was told of the terrible things that would happen running an X11 DE on a Wayland system. After a week of running it, I can report nothing happened, everything's been running smooth. Funny thing, I did do a short test of Cinnamon Wayland which is an alpha and ran into problems there, some odd behavior both of the main menu and the right click menu, tabs couldn't be dragged in Firefox, and I couldn't customize the date, time or keyboard to my taste, something that's apparently a Wayland issue.

So, here I was ready to do a re-install, since I'd started with the KDE flavor of Asahi, so I was thinking start over again with no desktop and then install Cinnamon. Then I saw a vid about the alpha release of Cosmic and was thinking maybe I can get it running and try that out... And then this morn I saw that thread, which came with an unofficial COPR to install Cosmic on Fedora.

Yeah, couldn't resist, so at the end of my morning surfing, I installed it, tweaked it just a touch, and that's it. Now I'm back on it, and it looks decent, there are some issues, and the janky set up I have going doesn't help, but it seems to work. Very bare bones at this point, but things are good enough, biggest problem has been wallpaper, the size setting doesn't seem to stay set. Still, that's the only problem, I can customize the time, date and keyboard no problem, Firefox tabs are draggable, everything seems to work so far. Not real big on the visible aqua window frame, but it's not terrible. Design seems nice and clean, and stable, though that last one will need to be tested.

So, I guess it's another week of testing, now with Cosmic. Oh the horror... Now if'n they'd fix the damn WiFi upstream.

#Linux #wayland #cosmic #Cinnamon #AsahiLinux

m1cha1s

2024-08-10 10:32:55

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@AsahiLinux is there any plan to create an COSMIC desktop variant of fedora Asahi remix?

#Linux #wayland #Cinnamon #AsahiLinux #cosmic

Tech Cyborg hat dies geteilt.

Als Antwort auf Vex for Harris & Wallz has moved

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Ayke van Laethem

while X11 is one software package, Wayland is more like a protocol that each DE implements separately. So yeah, it doesn't surprise me that Cinnamon Wayland doesn't work well when it's still alpha. KDE Wayland on the other hand is very stable and works a lot better for me (especially since I have two screens with different scaling, something that doesn't work well in X11).

X11 still works, but all the effort by the Asahi team is put into making Wayland work well.

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