Re:Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux
by josephcsible on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:40PM
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I wish there were a distro that shipped a system like yours out of the box.
Re:Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux
by orthecreedence on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @01:24PM
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I think you want Slackware. It's about as close to a BSD system that linux gets, no systemd...install i3wm and you've got mostly what the commenter above described.
I used Slack for many, many years both as a personal OS and a production server. It's rock solid, fast, and lean. It's not easy though, and you're going to be doing a lot of compiling from source and package management by hand. These are the trade-offs.
Re:Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux
by orthecreedence on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @01:21PM
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> for some reason.
Linux is and has been courting the casual user for quite a while now, which is why I think things are going in this direction. It's a testament to its modularity that it can support the Windows shipjumpers as well as your use cases.
Fortunately I've managed to excise this mess of interconnected dependencies from my computer and run plain X11 with a very functional desktop environment.
No PulseAudio, Systemd, NetworkManager, PipeWire or even D-Bus. And a very low memory footprint and the system is extremely fast, despite it being old hardware.
All of this bloatware is coming out of Freedesktop.org, which is run by Red Hat / GNOME. And it's where most of the toxicity in open source is coming from.
I've also gotten rid of the "modern" user-interface design trends as well. I get a high contrast, high information density desktop with full colour icons. None of this depressing grey garbage we get nowadays. All of the keyboard shortcuts work - I don't even need to use the mouse.
If you showed someone from 20 years ago what a "modern" desktop interface looked like, they would be outraged and in disbelief. We have taken an enormous step back for some reason.