The openSUSE Leap 16.0 release is going to be among the first Linux distributions delivering an Xfce desktop experience atop Wayland as one of its offered desktop options. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 16.0 packages have seen a lot of work recently for those interested in running Xfce on Wayland albeit in an experimental state.
I was intrigued by XFCE on Wayland so I looked into it.
XFCE is not really available on Wayland yet. XFWM is X11 only and there is no XFCE compositor.
What Leap is doing is running the XFCE panel and apps on Labwc. When I have tried this, “it works” but it is certainly not as polished as XFCE on Xorg.
I am a Wayland fan so overall I support OpenSUSE moving to Wayland. This seems like a bit of disservice to XFCE fans though as I am not sure the DE is ready yet. And the take-away is going to be that it is Wayland that is not working.
I remember wanting to try opensuse. I got to the installer and just noped out. I needed to manually partition things and it was so depressing to figure out. I have very little patience so I just scrapped that idea.
Every time I reinstall, it takes me a while to remember how I did it last time.
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😂 story of my life with Anaconda on bazzite.
I think OpenSUSE, at least, has changed/improved the installer since the last time I used it. It remains to be seen whether it’ll be easier to handle my existing partitions or just more arcane, since I’ll have no previous experience, even vague memories.
I’m traumatized by their installer. lol. I think fedora’s new installer is fantastic. I can’t wait for Bazzite to use it, too.
