IT Nerd of 30yrs and avid hobbiest of genealogy, geology and science in general.
Good rule of thumb I’ve decided upon over the years for this:
“If the # of kernels present is greater than 3, reinstall for thee”.
Figure 3 full kernel versions, excluding patches averages 12-18 months (based on kernel.org history). It’s been a good metric to follow.
I meant uninstall the window manager and install XFCE, was a poor choice of wording.
They do and it does work correctly with some configurations, but there are some obvious problems with existing applications and gpu vendor drivers that make multi monitor support a bitch.
It will probably take another 5+ years (already been 17 years, 4 actually being used in desktop managers) for the devs to resolve.
Works great… until you realize your GPU isn’t liked by Wayland when you have more than one monitor lol. Then Wayland is uninstalled and you go back to Xorg or XFCE.
It’s weird, had this issue with multiple monitors where wayland is either a glitchy refresh rate mess or just doesn’t recognize at all. Nvidia, amd, discrete or dedicated, native driver or oem driver: they’re all finicky under wayland when multiple monitors are used.
What? No mention of the bastard child: Microsoft Azure (Mariner) Linux? You sick MS loving mutant!
As an old crusty Slackware user and UNIX admin, IDGAF what Linux distro people use; using any of them is a step in the right direction.
Hint: There is no vSAN/UCI/HCI silver bullet.
They all suffer from performance related issues either up front or over time, have scalability deficits or limitations and lackluster price to performance ratios (Nutanix can suck my 5yr forced upgrade balls).