Ricing

Hello! 11 days ago I switched from x11 to wayland, because 60 FPS scrolling is a feature too good to miss. Now what is wayland, you may ask? Wayland is like a replacement to the traditional x11 display protocol. You can read more about it here. My x11 setup consisted of the following software: DWM as the window manager. Polybar as the status bar. Dunst as the notification daemon. ST as my terminal emulator. Betterlockscreen as the lockscreen. Rofi as the app launcher. Now before switching to wayland, some of these tools listed above straight up break in a wayland environment, like betterlockscreen and rofi. ST also behaves weirdly on wayland, but it works. And of course, since DWM is an x11 window manager, you cannot use it on wayland. ...

So hi! I have been using Linux for almost 5 months now and I have learned a lot! Just wanted to share my experience with everyone. When I asked my friend (who is an expert in Linux), he recommended me Pop!_OS, an Ubuntu based distro. So, I installed it and it was my first Linux distribution. My experience using Pop!_OS was amazing and it still is one of my favourite distributions. ...