Wayland is THE replacement to broken, hack-driven, insecure and unmaintainable Xorg.
Pipewire is THE replacement to the messy and problematic audio stack on Linux to replace Pulseaudio, Alsa etc.
SystemD is THE replacement to SysVinit (and is an entire suite of software)
I was going to link it but I can't find it. Can you give me a hand with that?
I remember hearing of a 2024 release of XFCE for Wayland.
I feel almost obliged to ask, do you work on ItsFOSS, OmgUbuntu or one of the other major Linux publications, as I think I've seen your name somewhere?
I love the fact how all the things they list make sense for security and then there's just:
A Nautilus extension
Of course, when reading on, the article mentions it's there for convenience to avoid having to open a terminal, but I still found it really funny when reading the list.
I've had no issues so far. I've been running this setup for the last 2 months or so and it's been solid! I'm running it on a laptop though, so your mileage may vary based on your hardware.
My response to that is
Not Anymore
In the sense that woth Debian 12, proprietary drivers are included OOTB, so at this point, even that is no longer an argument against Debian.
Thunderbird on Flathub is already an official package.
The reason this is feasible now, is that KDE is changing the release cycle for Plasma, Frameworks, and the Apps to all be aligned with the sometime-before-the-distro-release 6-month cycle, that allows for a release of everything KDE to be taken, tested properly, and released with the 6-month release cycle for Ubuntu, Fedora and other distros following that release cycle. Until recently, we would have the releases of these components all separate throughout the year, meaning that it would be harder for the distros to package, test and ship Plasma as a flagship desktop because of stability concerns (also because of bugs).
Now, with Plasma 6 being all about making Plasma better and more stable, especially in the Wayland department, I'd say Plasma is superior to GNOME in every way (except funding). At this point, it's not too unrealistic to see distros consider the switch to Plasma, including major distros like Fedora, as seen here. I really think this is the best time to consider using Plasma over GNOME.
I've been looking into learning vim motions (after using vim for nearly 2 years; I know, I know. I was using arrows before that, I'm an idiot), and this game will be very helpful in my process of learning vim motions.
As the above commenter already said, ...
Not Anymore
The only thing I personally dislike about systemd is the "waiting for service to stop 5mins/1h30mins" stuff during shutdowns and reboots. I know I can limit them to 10s or something but how about just making systemd force-stop these services like, say, runit.
When I'm using my bemenu script to shutdown and feel like a hackerman, don't take that way from me by being an annoyance, systemd!!!
Edit: Yes, I'm considering switching to Void, how could you tell?