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  • Sorry to say, but no, it’s the most problem solution.

    I won’t even get into the details, but it’s like a heart replacement, and there are many issues by simple swapping packages from the default in this sense. Everything is shipped expecting whatever distro defaults, and just swapping things out doesn’t work that easily.

    It sounds like you probably had issues with specific apps that didn’t properly support Wayland, and you couldn’t tell the difference between the entire composition environment, and a single app having issues because it only support X11.













  • Every Linux distro will work with your hardware, aside from edge case components in certain situations. There is no difference in distros for hardware compatibility, unless you’re thinking of running a very old versions of something. Anything will work.

    There is also no major difference between distros for gaming performance. The only difference in “gaming” distros is that they have certain software preselected and installed. You can just do this yourself anyway.

    I currently suggest Fedora for beginners because it’s dead simple. The big difference between any distro is going to be the default Desktop Environment, and you can choose whatever you want after you install anyway.

    If you like Windows’ UI, give KDE a shot. If you want something more like MacOS, go for Gnome. Either work great.

    If you want to try multiple, download some LiveUSB images, start em up and poke around a bit. If you change your mind after install, you can just install a different DE and switch over without needing to reinstall the entire OS.