loaExMachina [any]

Wait, actually I think the one with good Nextcloud integration is OnlyOffice. So, even if I really needed to collaborate instantly on an open document file via a server, I’d have a better option than Collabora.

I second this advice.

I love LibreOffice ! It does what it’s made for, no more no less, as a good software should. I’ve been considering adopting Collabora since I started using Nextcloud and I know they’re well integrated, but now I know I’m sticking with good ole’ LibreOffice, no need to fix what isn’t broken.

Last time I tried wayland (with sway), Krita didn’t support it natively, and tho you could run it with xwayland, there was an insufferable cursor offset bug that I couldn’t get rid of safe by returning to X11 (with i3). Supposedly, Krita now supports wayland so I figured I might try again… But when I got the error in sway saying it didn’t support proprietary nvidia drivers, I figured I just… Wouldn’t do that. Yeah, maybe it’d work just switching to nouveau drivers, but I’ve wrestled with nvidia drivers and haven’t had a problem about it for a while, I don’t want to shake that wasp’s nest again. And I don’t know how many other parts of my config I’m gonna have to change as well, and I don’t feel like doing that now. At this point I don’t have any reason not to switch to wayland, but I also don’t really have much reason to switch, and being marginally faster isn’t enough for me.

Do people using the older init functions actually perform even better?

The thing is, the really older init functions like Sysvinit or even Upstart aren’t all that’s being compared to Systemd. Alternatives include OpenRC, which is just a bit older than systemd and also improved during this time, and Dinit, which is newer than systemd.

I recently switched from Arch to Artix witg Dinit, I can’t make a full comparison since I also didn’t reinstall every program after the change and this might play into it, but I can at least say that the time it takes to boot is reduced, and I saw some people online making the same constatation.

As for the comparision with windows… I think regardless of init system and distros it is generally true that Linux does more out of less than windows, and that difference completely dwarfs the difference between specific init systems on Linux.

I use disroot.org, it’s free and pretty good. Not as much inbox space as those that are either free or from corpos tho. Should be alright as long as you delete useless mails.