Arch should have this in a few days to a couple of weeks.

This guy is so glaringly unintelligent that he makes Trump seem smarter.

Many of us Canadians still have some Scottish blood. And I bet it works as well as it ever did.

What did you replace Xorg with 10 years ago?

I am not the biggest Richard Stallman fan, and this was also my first thought. But in the interest of truth, it is very unfair to portray him this way.

What Stallman argued for was correctness. He is guilty of pedantry, not pedophilia. Did he do it badly. Yes. Was it a socially risky position to take? For sure. Is he a child predator? Not based on any evidence I have seen.

There are actual child predators out there. Let’s focus on them.

By “shares some of the same codebae”, I assume that you mean both COSMIC and Niri use the Smithay Wayland support library? Or that both Niri and GNOME use xdg-desktop-portal-gnome?

Interesting that you are using PaperWM but recommending Niri.

I wish I saw your comment earlier. I agree.

Let’s be honest, the US would beat us on both quantity and tech.

However, spending less per unit would go a long way to closing the gap. And the operating costs are even more dramatic. Canada could have pilots training around the clock flying Gripens for the cost of occasionally relocating the F-35. The cost difference is nuts.

And I really do not think the Gripen is that far behind the F-35 in the real world.

But the US military budget is just stupid. They could have an F-35 fly around the world for a month being constantly refueled in flight and it might not get its own line item in the expense report.

I am ok giving him a shot (to run) post Trump.

Of that happens, we cannot be forced into an election. Which means Carney can largely ignore PP for a couple of years.

Have you tried COSMIC yet? Maybe PopOS is worth a shot.

Some packages are a bit old at the moment but they have a release coming in April / May that will bring them right up to date.

Perhaps LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is worth a look as well.

Both options are similar in that they take a very stable distro base and layer on a quite up-to-date desktop.

They also feature clear direction and a predicable release schedule.

Mint or Fedora require no more command line than Windows does.

Full on invasion is not the only risk. What if we wanted to support allies in protecting Greenland? What if we wanted to conduct an operation elsewhere in the world that the US disagrees with?

It is not impossible to believe the US oppose NATO from defending a county against Russia. That is the enemy the Gripens were specifically designed to fight.

Ok. Very exciting. But is it actually available for purchase anywhere?

Can an SBC maker even buy it yet?

Probably not a universal answer as you are optimizing for different things.

I will say that EndeavourOS is essentially vanilla Arch once installed. If you really love configuring everything yourself, vanilla Arch is what you are looking for. If you like Arch but just want to fire up a system with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS adds a lot of value without corrupting the purity of the base system.

So, my vote is for EndeavourOS.

Cachy adds the most additional functionality but also changes the base system the most. If you have a T2 MacBook, this is the best option for sure.

I would avoid Manjaro.

Garuda has fans. A bit much for me.

Breaking Canadian dependence on US trade is our largest national security issue.

Taking on smaller risks to mitigate larger ones is a simple optimization problem.

Even on this one issue, the US is the bigger problem. Teslas spy on Canadians and send data to the US. Many of them are manufactured in China. So they may share data with both of them.

And we send tens of billions of dollars every year buying US cars. The US wants to kill the Canadian auto industry.

China is likely to invest in Canadian production to support North American sales.

Chinese EVs are an improvement.

X11 desktops work fine and will continue to work fine. But very few people will be using them in 5 years.

Why don’t you just stick to X if you think it is better?

Of course, the rest of us have moved on to Wayland because we disagree with you.

No need to fight though. Have fun.

It is a different ecosystem. It requires time to mature and yes, you have to migrate to it in order to use it.

Moving to Wayland was a bit like moving to a different operating system from an application point of view. The toolkits made that reasonably easy for most apps but they really do not help much if you are the window manager.

So yes, compositors had to be built. This was easy enough for the big projects like GNOME and KDE but a bigger ask for smaller players. But there are lots now: GNOME, Plasma, Hyprland, MangoWC, Niri, COSMIC, Budgie, LxQT, LabWC, Wayfire, Sway, DWL, River, Wayland Maker, etc. I am sure there are many more I don’t know or forgot. There will be lots more.

And yes, a Wayland compositor is a bit like the X server and window manager combined. So, they are harder to build. Except libraries have appeared to do that. There are wlroots, Smithay, aquamarine, Louvre, and SWC. There will be more. So, a Wayland compositor is not really that much harder anymore. And it will get easier.

The XFCE project is just starting a Wayland compositor project now. It will be built mostly by a single developer. They think they will have a dev release in a few months. They are using Smithay.

Building the Wayland ecosystem took time. But we are basically there. And it is only going to get bigger and better.

CodeWeavers, also a for profit company, has indeed been at it for decades. I used to pay them to run Outlook something like 20 years ago.

If you want to imply that Valve is not contributing, your own statement works against you. Wine is not new. CodeWeavers is not new. Yet gaming on Linux only really became a thing once Valve got involved.

Most people still cannot install or configure Wine. But they can use Proton in Steam. People gaming everyday still cannot get Office or Photoshop to work. They can play Steam games but would struggle to make StarCraft run (not in Steam).

Valve is organizing all the bits to make an actual ecosystem work. It is why they created Proton vs just sending patches to Wine. It is why they have gamescope. It is why they fund FEX. If is why they created the Steamdeck and Steam Machine.

I have loved CodeWeavers literally for decades. But minimizing the impact that Valve has had on Linux gaming makes no sense.