Honestly, I've only ever had problems with Wayland so far. So many times when I look up the issue tracker for a software I'm having issues with, the solution is always "switch to a DE that uses Xorg."
I get that it's not a mature software yet, but neither should people be pushing to use it until it is.
I deliberately said Windows instead of Mac, because all the apple users I know are the type of people who will never, ever try linux in the first place.
you either go back to windows, or turn into this guy. There is no 3rd option.
You know, I've always loved C and doing my own memory management. I love learning optimization techniques and applying them.
But you know what? Everybody around me keeps saying I'm being silly. They keep telling me I won't find any jobs like that. They say I should just swallow my juvenile preferences and go with what's popular, chasing trends for the entire rest of my career.
I don't think you can blame people for trending away from quality software. Its clearly against the grain.
If I could, I'd compile all my software from source. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of open source developers don't like writing software in C, which means the burden of sorting through dependancy-hell has been deferred to my shoulders instead.
i read a blog post by a former MS employee who shed some light on the situation. apparently the windows dev team is entirely made up of junior developers. As soon as anybody gets any experience, either MS tries to promote them to management, or they leave to find a better job.
what that means is there is nobody at MS who has deep knowledge of the Windows kernel. So instead of re-writting, re-factoring or making additions, all they know how to do is add things on top of the existing OS.
windows 11 isn' all bad. It made my mother ask me to install linux on her computer.
you're not using debian? that must mean you hate freedom.
My advice is to get a hobby. Self-hosting, or home automation to name a few examples. When you have a specific goal for something you want to do, it's a lot easier to learn.
Green Is My Pepper
an alternate timeline, where Linus didn't make Linux open source, got rich off of it, and sold it to IBM.
sorry, i consider myself more of a Unix nerd than a GNU nerd.
The way everyone talked about Linux, I thought it would be a transient interest I would eventually tire of. I've known a lot of professors who say they liked Linux back in the 90s, but decided they couldn't keep up with it, and have gone back to windows/apple.
I never anticipated that 4 years ago, when I booted up Linux for the first time, that it would also be the last time I shut down Windows. Furthermore, the likelihood of me ever going back seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day.