booting Linux Mint and Arch Linux now (I use Arch btw).
Get used to mint as your daily driver, and what terminal/commands you need. Mint is an Ubuntu base, so will have a more robust guides/troubleshooting ecosystem and less confused LLM's when you need something.
Hyperland
Likewise you probably would be best served settling into KDE for awhile, since you're coming from Windows and not hacking the planet. Hyperland is really for power users and just going to overload you.
DHH got a lot of people on the Hyperland bandwagon only recently with Omarchy, and DHH is elite, so his setup is not going to be a noob-friendly setup.
It's not bad, but also not mainstream, so docs/llm help isn't going to go as far as something more established.
Beware the hipsters recommending it, often their self-esteem is derived purely from being for the "current thing"
trying to learn how to use a terminal?
Lots of "cheat sheets" out there, look at a bunch until a format hits home.
If you regularly need to CLI you can look into adding "aliases" to your bashrc, which are basically terminal shortcuts.
Don't get overloaded by learning tmux yet. Keep it simple.
x11 and Wayland
Wayland is newer than than x11, they power the GUI for your desktop.
Newer is important context here:
Don't use [xyz] it sucks
Have to go down that road in this case, it's required knowledge because you will encounter an issue and need to know the difference and why you may need to switch.
X11 is the OG, everything was originally developed for X11. That means many things are still broken under Wayland.
Wayland being the Shitcoin/Trans/Rust "successor" to x11 means that's what the NGO's and Megacorps are pushing, so its become the default across the the major distros and issues are becoming more rare. It works fine 90% of the time, but for that 10% you'll need this context.
You can switch your desktop instance from Wayland to X11 if you find there's several things you need to get working. You can also tell a specific app launcher to use x11, even while the rest of your desktop is otherwise defaulted to Wayland.
X11 is also important once you start running apps on remote systems over SSH. For example, running a browser or text editor on a headless VPS on your local desktop GUI.
Top line theme for you: baby steps...
Get used to mint as your daily driver, and what terminal/commands you need. Mint is an Ubuntu base, so will have a more robust guides/troubleshooting ecosystem and less confused LLM's when you need something.
Likewise you probably would be best served settling into KDE for awhile, since you're coming from Windows and not hacking the planet. Hyperland is really for power users and just going to overload you.
DHH got a lot of people on the Hyperland bandwagon only recently with Omarchy, and DHH is elite, so his setup is not going to be a noob-friendly setup.
It's not bad, but also not mainstream, so docs/llm help isn't going to go as far as something more established.
Beware the hipsters recommending it, often their self-esteem is derived purely from being for the "current thing"
Lots of "cheat sheets" out there, look at a bunch until a format hits home.
If you regularly need to CLI you can look into adding "aliases" to your
bashrc, which are basically terminal shortcuts.Don't get overloaded by learning
tmuxyet. Keep it simple.Wayland is newer than than x11, they power the GUI for your desktop.
Newer is important context here:
Have to go down that road in this case, it's required knowledge because you will encounter an issue and need to know the difference and why you may need to switch.
X11 is the OG, everything was originally developed for X11. That means many things are still broken under Wayland.
Wayland being the Shitcoin/Trans/Rust "successor" to x11 means that's what the NGO's and Megacorps are pushing, so its become the default across the the major distros and issues are becoming more rare. It works fine 90% of the time, but for that 10% you'll need this context.
You can switch your desktop instance from Wayland to X11 if you find there's several things you need to get working. You can also tell a specific app launcher to use x11, even while the rest of your desktop is otherwise defaulted to Wayland.
X11 is also important once you start running apps on remote systems over SSH. For example, running a browser or text editor on a headless VPS on your local desktop GUI.