what’s keeping YOU from switching to an atomic distro?
I’m not interested, Fedora is ok.
we just need to figure out what’s stopping people from making the jump
Not everybody is interested. And certainly not everybody thinks that immutable distros are the end of history. Just you.
in fedora I installed mpv, ffmpeg and yt-dlp, but how to install the app? I mean no flatpak.
I have the same setup (EndeavourOS / KDE plasma 6 / Wayland / SDDM / 2 monitors) and had the same problem. The worst thing is that typing the password in the “active” login prompt (the one with the focus) wasn’t working anyway, so I had to use the mouse to give focus to the other monitor first, and then type the password. Absolutely annoying.
The solution I found (sorry I forgot where, some forum) is to disable all the detected monitors except one in /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup. Basically your secondary monitor will not get any signal until you type the password and log in. At that point any other monitor will be reactivated automatically.
This is my Xsetup:
#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output DisplayPort-0 --mode 2560x1440 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal
xrandr --output DisplayPort-1 --off
xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --off
xrandr --output HDMI-A-1 --off
Check out the output of xrandr in Wayland on my system:
$ xrandr | grep ' connected'
DP-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 590mm x 334mm
DP-2 connected 2560x1440+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 590mm x 334mm
DP-1 and DP-2 are the names used by Wayland, but they don’t work in Xsetup because X11 calls the ports DisplayPort-0 and DisplayPort-1 - and I don’t remember if HDMI ports are also called differently.
So you need to log in X11 first, get the names with xrandr, create or update Xsetup and reboot.
Which mini pc? I have an Intel NUC Intel i5 and looking for something smaller but can run a dev desktop (xfce, vscode, node, docker).
Lack of workers rights, as usual. In (most of) Europe those monitoring systems are illegal, as it should be.
Probably because its real purpose is not to sell things.
My office “requires” that I use the provided Apple M1 but I don’t give a shit because 1) MacOS is garbage, and 2) I make frontend and backend services that are going to run in containers on the cloud. So I’m using a Mint mini-pc in office and a Mint VM at home. Just use whatever you like.
BTW:
I don’t like them but if you are willing to work your ass off to make docker and everything else works be my guest. I prefer to keep everything work-related in a VM so I can just save snapshots.
Too risky for me but whatever.
I also do full stack and neither the distro and the DE matters IMHO.
I have XFCE on my Mint mini-pc. It’s fine but it looks so poor…