Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx44.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Subject: Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: Content-Language: en-US From: CrudeSausage In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 31 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenet-news.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:24:40 UTC Organization: usenet-news.net Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:24:40 -0400 X-Received-Bytes: 2244 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:689159 On 4/18/25 05:23, Borax Man wrote: > On 2025-04-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:14:54 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: >> >>> The desktops being roughly similar is only a necessity for users who >>> were already old when they learned MacOS or Windows and did so >>> stubbornly. Considering how difficult it was for them to adopt that >>> much, you wouldn't want to put an entirely different operating system in >>> front of them. For anyone else, a switch from Windows to Gnome or >>> Cinnamon shouldn't be such a chore. >> >> On Linux, “different GUIs” is not the same as “different operating >> systems”. Linux offers more variety of GUIs than all the rest of the >> computing world put together. > > Wont the obsolence of X11 put and end to that? Many Desktop > Environments and Window Managers won't work at all on Wayland, from what > I understand. Only Gnome and KDE seem to fully support Wayland. For everything else, it's experimental. That's part of why I'm not using Linux Mint at the moment. Cinnamon isn't scheduled to use Wayland until the 23.x releases which means that if you have a laptop and enjoy using gestures, you won't be getting full support there. -- God be with you, CrudeSausage LibreOffice supporter John 14:6