Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it

Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by semilin on Thursday January 01, 2026 @09:36PM (#46460775)

I think Wayland is good for more technical users. Going from i3 to sway or bspwm to river feels like essentially nothing has changed. On the other hand, Gnome X11 to Wayland might be a bigger shock.

Unfortunately, Wayland inherently can't be like Pipewire, which instantly solved basically 90% of audio issues on Linux through its compatibility with Pulseaudio, while having (in my experience) zero drawbacks. If someone could make the equivalent of Pipewire for X11, that'd be nice. Probably far-fetched though.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by aidenn0 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @11:42PM (#46461493)

It can absolutely be like that. Global keyboard shortcuts not working is a deliberate design choice in Wayland (as is non-foreground apps not having access to the clipboard).

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by tigrezno on Friday January 02, 2026 @05:14AM (#46463340)

Gnome is bringing global shortcuts AFAIK in the next stable version

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by akka47 on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:48AM (#46466628)

Yeah but now everything's platform-specific. We'll have a KDE version, a Gnome version, a wlroots version, ...

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by aidenn0 on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:39PM (#46467890)

I bet dollars-to-donuts it won't work with X11 apps

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by bigyabai on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:52PM (#46470998)

There's no reason it couldn't.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by aidenn0 on Monday January 05, 2026 @03:12PM (#46504192)

Yes there is; Xwayland won't support it.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by bigyabai on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:49PM (#46508851)

So what? Xwayland doesn't support file selectors, but XDG has a portal that handles it fine.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by jcgl on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:54PM (#46482566)

I can’t speak to the GNOME side of things, but I’ve been enjoying global shortcuts on KDE Wayland for years now. No issues to report whatsoever.

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