they are switches for electron apps, as some of them default to run under X11. so for e.g. element, it should be flatpak run im.riot.Riot --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WebRTCPipeWireCapturer --ozone-platform=wayland.

you can check if all your apps are using wayland by running xlsclients in terminal while you got them open; an empty response means all wayland.

maybe reword the title, as this will inevitably lead to partisan turf wars in the vein of my-distro-can-beat-up-yalls-distro and such.

as to your thesis, yes, mint and ubuntu are important and needed as beginner-friendly it-just-works solutions that have things in place (like the mentioned driver manager) that are sorely needed for noobs. once they learn what’s what they are free to wander farther, as there’s essentially zero switching costs when moving from, say mint to fedora.

you’ll find low sympathy from experienced users as they can’t relate to people who are so much below their expertise level. case in point, a buncha people already mentioning package managers, ignoring the idea that a noob doesn’t know what that is.

if you’ve installed flatpak recently, say F40 onward, it should default to user. if it’s an old install then your flatpaks are system-wide. there isn’t a downside for either case per se, but user being the default for the future prevents potential issues.

my issue is, when I need to edit a .desktop file (to include ozon flags and whatnot) for a system-wide flatpak app, plasma doesn’t edit the app’s .desktop file but incorrectly inserts a symlink to the user-wide version (which doesnt exist). there are ways around that, like removing the symlink and manually copying the file from /var/lib/flatpak/wherever to ~/.local/share/applications/ and editing it there, but then plasma doesn’t pick up the change immediately so this works better for me.

no help to you, but a heads-up to anybody yet to deploy disks in such a scenario: always use encryption by way of LUKS2. you can set it up easily to unlock it on boot by a key file on the boot drive, thumb drive, TPM and such. so when a drive gets sold, RMA’d, etc., you got none of these issues.

source: sold my old drives recently and the shred procedure took ages. the new ones are encrypted so none of that shit no more.

can’t help with the switch but if your monitor has multiple inputs, you can use ddcutil to switch between inputs. so for me it’s:

ddcutil -g PHL setvcp 60 0x0f # DP1
ddcutil -g PHL setvcp 60 0x10 # DP2
ddcutil -g PHL setvcp 60 0x11 # HDMI1
ddcutil -g PHL setvcp 60 0x12 # HDMI2

then you can use udev rules or external triggers to switch, e.g. KDE connect’s “Run Command” etc.

for uploading, absolutely use syncthing. you can set it up so that it works in only one direction, i.e. phone to server, so any file that appears on the phone’s download folder gets sent to the server. the one you want is syncthing-fork on fdroid.

as to listening to the music via youtube check out innertune, also on fdroid.

As of right now, Plasma Bigscreen isn’t available for public use yet.

But Lenovo only had the first gen available for sale,

can you share which model that is?

which ones?

you weren’t specific about your use case, but if running media-consumption apps is your thing, there’s a LineageOS AndroidTV port for Raspberry Pi. the most polished UX, no Google spyware to slow things down, super-competent hardware (avaialable with up to 8 GB RAM), supports HDMI-CEC (you can use your TV’s remote), has a wired LAN port, and you always have the option of installing a linux distro.

there’s the problem with religion: you allow random fantasies to permeate everyday life and it’ll inevitably spill over.

case in point: the fantasy that there’s a good-guy backdoor, unaccessible to bad guys.

so, demand away, preferably at the same place you entertain all other fantasies, like theaters, cinemas, tax-exempt criminal conspiracies churches, strip clubs, and the like.

you’re right. edited.

it doesn’t do none of those things. also, you should include less details, it’s fun guessing what your software stack is, how you installed it, and the term “if I use Wayland” is way too precise. likewise, that sentence of yours is enormously protracted, you should consider shortening it.

seriously, are you for real?

edit: hey, if you want people to help you, provide details as to your os, software, hardware, and maybe spend a bit of time describing your issue in detail as well as stuff you’ve tried. cheers!

just tried to re-watch “the girl in the spider’s web”, the not-sequel to fincher’s masterpiece that’s “the girl with the dragon tattoo”. I remember hating it way back when and went in with a “how bad can it be” attitude… dios mio, what a colossal mountain of shit. the “hacking” in OP is hard sci-fi compared to this turdistan, and that’s the least of its problems.

someone posted already the gell-mann amnesia effect and this applies to everything. how guns are portrayed in movies as magical. cars and how they’re driven. the laughable naive cop shows. medical procedures. legal proceedings. journalists and their MO.

you hafta run your brain at 110% at all times to be able to somewhat disregard the learned idiocy that was programmed into you from an early age. here’s hoping we have the infrastructure in place so generations that are coming can avoid becoming similarly handicapped.

Far Cry 5, running in 1080p on a 2160p desktop (alt-tabbing doesn’t switch resolutions, so jumping back and forth is seamless)

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it’s way less neck strain than the usual dual 24" side-by-side. this is like having 4x 20" 1080p screens in a grid but without the annoying bezels, and that’s how I’m mostly using it. plus you have the option to expand a window in any direction when you need it, which you can’t do in a multi-monitor setup. I arrange the windows in a 2x2 grid, or go smaller, usually 3x2 with keyboard shortcuts, by way of Better Quick Tiles for Plasma 6 (Kwin extension). tried the auto-tilers, hated 'em.

when I’m done with work, jellyfin-media-player in Fullscreen TV mode with a $5 bluetooth remote from the couch for movies and shows.

gaming sure, I run the games in 1080p and the desktop in 4k, so older games allow me to turn on FSR. had problems with Gnome Shell crashing regularly, zero crashes since I switched to Plasma.

Plasma on the desktop with the 40" 4K screen with lotsa windows and desktops. Gnome on the laptop, each app full-screen and swipe left-right to switch between them.

like a commercially available one? negative, you have to tinker and make it such.

if you have linux on the player (like with said PC or Raspberry) you have full control and can set it up to boot directly into jellyfin-media-player in fullscreen TV mode (that’s the one where remotes work).

Raspberry Pi with a cute case then, and/or glued/velcroed to the back of the TV. they also support HDMI-CEC so your TV’s remote can work.