Hello, comrades. I come to you seeking help. Recently, my young sister decides she would like to install Linux. Good brother that I am, I want to help her.
Here’s the kicker. Her PC has a GTX 770. The newest driver for such a card is #470 according to Ubuntu-derived systems. Alas, almost every “normal person” distro uses Wayland now, and Wayland doesn’t support such an old driver. I am not going to install Arch on a 10-year-old’s PC, btw.
What are some good distros I can install on her PC so that neither I nor her have to have a headache getting Wayland out and X11 in?
Thank you, friends.
It’s your computer. Put a different DE or just a different compositor on it. They all still work fine with X.
Fair enough. That being said, I learned of this incompatibility after I installed a driver and messed things up. I think it would be faster to install a distro that works fine out of the box instead of reinstalling that same distro and wasting more of my sister’s time.
Cheers!
Fair enough, I know Manjaro and EndeavorOS both ship with KDE and the option to use X11 or Wayland. I’d assume Debian defaults to X11.
Well yes, but you see, if I install a distro that uses X11 out of the box, rather than installing a distro that comes with Wayland and then installing X11 on top of it, then someone other than me is responsible when my setup breaks due to a software update. This is especially valuable on a relative’s computer where I won’t always be around to provide tech support.