Hello,

I just purchased an AMD framework 13 and while I wait (im)patiently for it to arrive, I was wondering what Linux distros people here are using.

I’ve only ever use Ubuntu on desktop, but I think I’m ready to move away from it now, which I guess leaves fedora and mint as officially supported distros.

What have you tried? What are your experiences?

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
    41·
    5 months ago

    Is Mint using Wayland? If not, how well does it work with touchpad gestures? I’m asking because at least on Fedora, when I try it on X11, it does not have the same level of advanced touchpad gestures as on Wayland.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
      31·
      5 months ago

      They have an experimental Wayland session, but it is still in early beta and not ready for regular use.

      I don’t use any special touchpad gestures on my laptops, so unfortunately I don’t know that one.

    • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      13 days ago

      What type of touchpad gestures are we talking about? I’ve got a new FW13 in the mail, and I’m looking for a new distro. I was gonna go Mint or bazzite but now I’m not so sure

      • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
        2·
        13 days ago

        I can’t say whether this is a configuration issue or just how x11 is setup, but I was unable to get any gestures working for swapping desktops and showing all open apps. the only gestures working out of the box were scrolling, but it was not a smooth scrolling it was a “mousehweel simulation” scroll, with large jumps. Of course the jump size can be configured but that’s just a mititgation for an otherwise different gesture control. Using Wayland for me, on fedora (x11 was also on fedora) solved all the gestures issues, out of the box.

        • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          13 days ago

          Thanks for this! I did ask in an old thread over on the framework community, but haven’t heard back. From what I read though, x11 definitely has gesture problems. Most people over there are running Mint or Fedora, with the Fedora Wayland people loving their gestures.

          Supposedly Mint has announced they are dedicated to framework compatibility. But until they move to Wayland it’s hard to see how.

          Thanks!

          Edit: I’m lost apparently. I have another thread where I’m asking Linux distro questions. I thought this was that, sorry.

          Thanks for the information, I’ll have to do some testing and see what I come up with.

          • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
            1·
            13 days ago

            Personally, fedora with Wayland is a great combo. I love Plasma and Wayland has not caused any issue on my side, despite rocking an nvidia GPU on my laptop (dell xps 15 from 2020). I spent multiple weeks playing Valheim on my laptop and it ran very well on Wayland, no issue. And that was early 2023.

            I personally recommend it.