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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Very low resources but reliable Wayland Desktop? (www.omglinux.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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When recommending people Linux Desktops for very low hardware in the past it was always stuff luke Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Puppylinux (and way more I know) etc.

Today we should not recommend X.org anymore, and Wayland is also said to be faster.

I have good experiences with KDE, but its not trimmed down in any way.

I was thinking about something like the Raspberry Pi Desktop? They use a set of regular Wayland utilities and the Desktop is probably very reliable and resource efficient.

This would be a great new ublue spin, for low resources. If their license allows it, it should be rebranded and changed to be more standard.

Do you know anything else? And no, no window managers please, had a really buggy experience on Fedora Sway.

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[–] kpw@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Sway works well for me, what's wrong with it?

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Keep an eye on Pop COSMIC. It isn't ready yet, but I'd give it 4 months and I think it would be a great match for something like rpi.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

Right, pure Rust must be fast af. And it doesnt look as shitty as the rpi desktop

[–] baconicsynergy@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

This was in development but its about a year stale: https://gitlab.com/cubocore/paper/paperde

[–] linuxoveruser@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

it sounds like rpios is using wayfire now, which is probably quite lightweight and can run on any distro