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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm on pop, with a working wayland for quite some time now. Excuse me fon being out of the loop, but what major distros don't have wayland support?

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Just off the top of my head, Linux Mint, which I know because Waydroid is incompatible with the machines I use in my classrooms. Even if it were compatible, unless the lack of global hotkeys has been addressed changing is a non-starter.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Global hotkeys have been addressed on KDE, but no applications actually support it — one of the reasons being that no other desktops support it. Typical chicken-egg problem.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Is global hotkey like push to talk in an app working when another is app is focussed?

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

linux mint(cinnamon stable ,experimental has some wayland support),mx linux(non kde version but am pretty sure kde 5.27 doesnt have wayland out of the box if they follow debian stable release cycle),antix,debian is what i can get from my head