Discussion
I am not appreciating that Pop!_OS 24.04LTS continues to be flaky. It's a sad state of affairs when you feel obligated to run things in a VM in case your wayland session freezes and dies randomly.
I also should not have to tmux into localhost for session preservation (though I do anyhow due to my "15 term windows open).
These are actually two different, but overlapping, #Pop_os problems:
1. Wayland just dies. No warning. No errors. My mouse pointer stops moving and the entire session dies and restarts.
2. cosmic-term up and dies. Similar behavior - the terminal stops updating and then exits abruptly.
Both of these prevent work. I find myself holding back on throwing workloads to my workstation because there's a good chance my entire session will die and I need to walk back to where I was.
So, going for a #lazyweb / #askfedi here: Are there any folks out there who have set up a Linux distro that isn't #Pop_os on their Thelio / System 76 systems?
I would like to avoid Ubuntu, because fuck snaps. I would also like to avoid Debian, because I don't want to live that far behind the edge. I also don't want to live close to the edge.
My experience tells me that I'm probably wanting Fedora, but I'm really interested in the opinions of the fedi. The only minor concern is that System 76 introduces a specific IO board to their systems, but I believe that is open source and the drivers are available to other systems.
@genericperson Not a Thelio, but Mint Cinnamon X11 works very well on my System76 Merkaat and handles all its hardware features, including power management. However, I found the hard way it's better not to install System76's hardware drivers and firmware updater as they may break APT package management.
