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  • You have a gross misunderstanding of what a display fucking system should do. X11 nowadays provides the same thing to apps as Wayland, except some bad design hacks that have become fundamental to writing Linux apps that are essentially workarounds for X11 sucking badly.

    NOBODY uses X11’s font system or widget system or vector system nowadays. X11 provides you with a render plane and some other bullshit and the toolkit does the rest.

    Which is the same as Wayland. Except Wayland actually has a properly designed and standardized way of doing things through the extension system, as in X11 everything is cobbled together from hacks.

    A good example is absolute window positioning. Wayland doesn’t have it because it’s been found that it wasn’t actually really needed, people did things that way because something that’s essentially a clever hack had become the de facto standard on X11. Same thing with how X11 apps do window captures.

    Generally, Wayland is a great leap in Linux desktop system. We’re catching up to what MacOS and Windows did 20 fucking years ago.


  • Programs not designed for Linux somehow manage to run on a completely different operating system through something I can only explain as fucking technological black magic, and you’re wondering that it doesn’t work quite like it’s native environment? The fact that this is even possible is incredible

    Go make the game devs release a proper Linux version and we won’t have those issues anymore







  • Use Debian.

    Manjaro has had major package policy issues in the past. Trying to bash arch into a stable release cadence doesn’t fucking work. Don’t know how true this is today, but it was a pain a couple years ago when I rolled it.

    My best luck with proper Linux development was on Debian and it’s derivatives. If you don’t need bleeding edge shite, it’s great.

    If you want something more up to date, debian based stuff like Ubuntu and Mint work well





  • You probably have some stuff like fTPM disabled in the UEFI. If you have AMD Zen or newer, it should work as long as you enable the settings.

    Also, update your firmware. Any newer AMD firmware should enable fTPM automatically precisely to enable Windows 11 support.

    AMD was really forward looking when they added this shit in 2016 eh