"I use Arch, btw."
Yes, I did it.
Arch is installed on my main rig. Let me send a screenshot...
By the way, I'm smarter, stronger, and better than all of you now. Not that it wasn't obvious before.
Joking...
I'm using GNOME as my desktop interface for now. I like KDE as well, but GNOME just feels so refined, in my opinion.
GNOME may feel better to me because I've been using Ubuntu on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon for the past year. The Wayland trackpad support on GNOME is just next-level.
I may end up getting a USB trackpad just to feel buttery 240Hz trackpad gestures in a desktop experience.
I'll likely be jumping between different DEs and WMs just to see what I like the most. Hyprland looks really interesting to me.
I've tried a few other DEs. I used Cinnamon (on Mint) for about a year, and I've used MATE (on ParrotOS) a bit as well. On one of my testing PCs, I've installed Debian and tried a bunch of the offered DEs on the tasksel screen during installation.
So far, everything is going smoothly. Nothing has broken yet (in the past two days of installing Arch).
Actually, I almost forgot to mention this: The sleep state is kinda bugged. I'm not sure if it has something to do with my 5.25-inch DVD drive, but it keeps spinning up and interrupts the sleep state and wakes my build. This was also happening when I had Windows 11, but for some reason, now, the PC will sleep if I wake it and log in too fast. So basically, it's narcoleptic for a little bit right when I wake it up. Weird.
No, there's no disc in there either, so I have no clue what's up with it.
Some applications are only available on Windows that I sort of need.
The Office 365 suite is one of them.
Yes, I'm aware that LibreOffice exists, but I've gotten the hang of Excel 2021, and I feel that LibreOffice Calc just doesn't compare to the real thing. Maybe OnlyOffice is a bit better, but I'm not sure.
So I spun up a Windows 11 VM on my Prox 1 Mainserver.
The solution is: Whenever I need to use a Windows-only application, I RDP into my Windows VM and do what I need to do on there.
I know there are compatibility programs on Linux to run Windows programs, i.e., Wine, but I don't want it to be buggy or anything like that.
I really need to start on some PC tech work and stop screwing around with this.
Ciao.