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patrakov on Sept 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living

And, as explained, it doesn't matter. The problems, at root, are human psychology and incompatible but popular software, and that's sufficient to drive people away. And the issues are not new: we had exactly that with Windows Vista.

dismalaf on Sept 14, 2025 [–]

And this is why I don't recommend any DE other than Gnome, and why Gnome is the only desktop supported by corporate distros (RHEL, Suse, Ubuntu).

It's pretty much guaranteed if someone is having issues, they're using a DE that's not Gnome.

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