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Ubuntu uses GNOME. Xwayland is one of GNOME’s dependencies. meaning apt bricked your GNOME for no apperent reason???

Though if your dm breaks, you should still be able to log into a TTY and start your desktop manually. This is what I do for my Hyprland install, since I don’t see a reason to use a dm personally.

Meanwhile me who uses Wayland and only has the absolute necessary packages installed to make Xwayland work.

If you really care about high performance on an SSD, use f2fs. This filesystem was made for SSDs specifically. Though ext4 and xfs are also really solid and shouldn’t be that much slower. But if you do care about squeezing out every bit out of performance, f2fs is definitely worth trying.

It’s a bit more experimental, yet I’ve been daily driving it for maybe a year or so at this point and it never caused trouble once, even with cutting edge mount options.

It’s Ubuntu LTS, but with the latest KDE stuff. Can’t break it down further.

Sway… Just behaves weird at times. The tiling just never feels right and it never seems to do exactly what I want. Hyprland just feels better in its behavior. And it has cool animations!

Sadly Zypper isn’t really faster. From my experience, pacman is really the best package manager. But if you still want to try Opensuse. There’s also Leap. It’s a stable release distro, though it mostly uses LTS ⁄ stable software as it’s a clone of SUSE enterprise, while Fedora mostly gets cutting edge software when a new release hits.

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