> Wayland may well replace X in the future, but at the time of writing X is still the de-facto standard for a window system
Is it? The article was written end of last year. I believe the most widespread DEs on the most widespread distros now use Wayland by default, don't they?
There's now stuff that just works better on Wayland today. I've kept X11 for a very long time, probably until 2023, because of little annoying details, but now it just works. I think the only remaming thing that annoys me is some apps like Kate not coming to the to the foreground when invoked.
Things are slowly going to stop working on X11. Perhaps not today, but we are talking about setting up a new Linux install.
Especially something like Arch that has all the recent versions.
I recently got a good laptop with great hardware, so I opted for Wayland (with hyprland). It is still finniky. One main issue is Xwayland dependency that feels a bit warped. Another one is gaming support (Wine still heavily depends on X11). Then you got nvidia. It's a lot of small things. Overall, big improvement since I gave it a try 2 years ago, it's evolving fast, and I would argue nearly "there". But not yet.
Written for laptop users. I'd raise an eyebrow at going with i3 rather than... I don't know... Gnome or KDE or MATE or Cinnamon or Xfce or, well, anything a little more user-friendly.
> Wayland may well replace X in the future, but at the time of writing X is still the de-facto standard for a window system
Is it? The article was written end of last year. I believe the most widespread DEs on the most widespread distros now use Wayland by default, don't they?
There's now stuff that just works better on Wayland today. I've kept X11 for a very long time, probably until 2023, because of little annoying details, but now it just works. I think the only remaming thing that annoys me is some apps like Kate not coming to the to the foreground when invoked.
Things are slowly going to stop working on X11. Perhaps not today, but we are talking about setting up a new Linux install.
Especially something like Arch that has all the recent versions.
I recently got a good laptop with great hardware, so I opted for Wayland (with hyprland). It is still finniky. One main issue is Xwayland dependency that feels a bit warped. Another one is gaming support (Wine still heavily depends on X11). Then you got nvidia. It's a lot of small things. Overall, big improvement since I gave it a try 2 years ago, it's evolving fast, and I would argue nearly "there". But not yet.
I think new users to linux should skip x11 entirely as it is out of fashion and only adds friction.
sway instead of i3 if you insist on tiling wm (i do, but it is a fringe option and another pain point for newbies)
Written for laptop users. I'd raise an eyebrow at going with i3 rather than... I don't know... Gnome or KDE or MATE or Cinnamon or Xfce or, well, anything a little more user-friendly.
FWIW, the author explains his reasoning about desktop environments in the middle of this page: https://ejmastnak.com/tutorials/arch/startx/
Basically recommending to start minimal, with the freedom to configure/add things afterwards.
Arch Linux is the best distro for KDE enjoyers. I recommend going all in on KDE, especially with its companion app "KDE Connect" on your smartphone
openSUSE is quite good as well, any specific reason Arch would be better for KDE than openSUSE?