A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.
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Is it using wayland? I think we were able to install KDE through the software manager, but only the X version.
Yep I'm pretty sure its wayland! But its only version 5.X
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I like plasma kde but I dont think most vnc clients support it so remote desktop with a viewer seems out, rustdesk works but you have to manually accept the connection at the computer. Which works for me since I only remote desktop when moving to another room or going to the bathroom and I need to monitor something.
And here's me using a 15m long HDMI whenever I go to the loungeroom.
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Im using cachy, I had to manually partition with gparted once in the install screen after using the usb since auto didnt work but the most recent cachyos dualboot yt video can walk you through that, I can find that for you if you need it, I used ventoy since I wanted to keep using my usb for data.
Thank you kindly for the advice. I'll look into cachy. I'm sure I can figure it out.
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No worries fam. And thanks for clarifying! With that clarification, I think I've found what has caused the confusion for me.
Bazzite, even if it's ultimately derived from Fedora, is actually not closely related to ('traditional') Fedora, but instead to Fedora Atomic.
Most of the people that have been recommending Fedora, actually meant the non-Atomic variants. And while this might seem minor, which arguably it is, it is important to be conscious of this distinction.
('Traditional') Fedora behaves a lot like most other distros. Fedora Atomic, instead, introduces a new paradigm. Bazzite goes all-in on this new model and we might even refer to it as next-gen (if you will). Though, it's important to mention that the next-gen part is only true within the context of Fedora. This is because Fedora has been the only distro to have clearly pronounced their ambitions in this direction. They even reiterated this in their Fedora Strategy 2028 and I quote: "Objective: Immutable variants are the majority of Fedora Linux in use". (Note that atomic is a rebranding of immutable)
So, within the context of Fedora, even if I don't see the traditional model being sunset anytime soon, the atomic variants do seem more promising in terms of longevity.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Fedora Atomic; in particular the uBlue projects, so that includes Bazzite. Therefore, I absolutely welcome you on board for Bazzite. But, it's important to be aware that Bazzite is not representative of what ('traditional') Fedora is (or vice versa); it's not a "flavor".
Understood, I will continue aware of that distinction.
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Is it using wayland? I think we were able to install KDE through the software manager, but only the X version.
I know this is super late - turns out i was wrong, its x11
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I know this is super late - turns out i was wrong, its x11
Thanks for the followup, I found a couple of plasma-wayland packages (I forget if they were through apt or the software center, and i don't know what the difference is) and tried them out. One of them I'm not sure what it added, but the other did seem to create the necessary file for my partner's launcher to use plasma wayland. I don't know if it's a mint thing, but we always had to do a full reboot between using wayland and x11 window managers; if you just log out and choose the other, stuff would be borked.
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