Linux on daily desktop attempt lasted two days
A quick summary of what went wrong:
Nvidia graphics
I know it’s always Nvidia graphics, but quite honestly it got very close this time! The only problem is, I kept getting those weird flickering issues on KDE + Wayland:
From reading online, it seems to be a problem with the Nvidia drivers not supporting explicit sync on Wayland. Support was added in driver version 555, but it was still in beta and the stable one was stuck at 550. (And while this was going on, Windows had the 555.x drivers for quite some time now…)
As a workaround, I switched to using X11, which solved this bug but made the experience much slower.
Input method
I just tried to get Korean input working with nimf, but I guess I made a mistake writing .xprofile, because the entire desktop environment ended up going away, never to return:
Sidenote: it’s still a pretty terrible experience configuring an input engine on Linux. I chose nimf because it worked quite well on my other Linux machines using Wayland, but the procedure could use some polish. The current installation procedure involves adding the lines as described on the Arch Linux wiki to .xprofile, signing out and signing back in, and then rebooting when you realize that didn’t work, the messing about with the KDE keyboard settings a little, then finally somehow getting it working after invoking nimf & a bunch of times.
Instead, this should be a single configurable option in the desktop environment’s respective settings page, and hopefully not require signing out or rebooting.
Anyway, that concludes my two day testing of Linux on my daily-use desktop. I’ll probably give it another shot once the 555 driver is out.