Last time I followed advice from a guy on YouTube and it did not work. This time I simply followed the website instructions and it worked. Thank you. I still need to test with steam games but davinci and darktable already show that they are using Opencl and cuda.
Great. So far I am happy. I will keep reporting.
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At first my steam application did not use the gpu and I fiddled around a lot trying different variants of the switcheroo application. Until I discovered that a simple right click on the application gives the option to âlaunch with dedicated gpuâ.
Now it works. I will soon also switch my desktop to tumbleweed if my experiences continue to be so positive.
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After playing around with a few like Ubuntu , Kubuntu and Fedora , I landed on Linux Mint and fell in love. I think later this year I might convert my Windows 10 pc to Linux Mint.
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I am upgrading my parentsâ desktop, replacing the SSD so I have to reinstall linux. They have Ubuntu but they dislike Gnome.
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What would you recommend as a future proof âclassicâ desktop? Ie something that looks like XFCE, but should handle Wayland.
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Is there a Debian derivative that is as up to date as Fedora? Recent packages, sane installer choices like btrfs and zram, etc
Why not Fedora KDE?
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Is KDE still a second-class citizen on Fedora? It was one of the reasons I chose openSUSE over it, many years ago.
Both XFCE and KDE should fit that bill.
Why do you need a debian derivate instead of plain debian?
I donât want them to run testing, and stable is usually very old.
that usually means that your non old debian forked distro either runs a combination of testing and stable or is just as old? 
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Itâs not really second class anymore, itâs just not the default. Everything works, updates work through the store, you also get update notifications, SELinux works as intended, etc.
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did you consider something like https://kalpadesktop.org/ for them?
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For very mainstream, I would recommend Mint. For something only slightly off the beaten path, MX. I donât think you could go wrong with either. Both should support the desktop environment or window manager of your choice.
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Thanks everyone for the distro recommendations. I just want to clarify that they are secondary to the choice of a desktop environment, which I am still not sure about.
Also, I am reluctant to get into the âZ is derived from X which is based on Y which is a variant of Wâ game with distros. Frankly, I still donât see the point of fragmenting, unless the new variant has resources to actually contribute to maintenance (which very few major players can pull off), otherwise it is just a repackaging.
KDE Plasma is a resource hog (I tried), but should work as a last resort. AFAIK XFCE Wayland support is experimental. Budgie will support Wayland in its next release, whenever that is, and Cinnamonâs wayland support is alpha.
Perhaps I should just wait a bit until Wayland support matures for other desktop environments.
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Why is Wayland so important?
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This is contrary to my experience. Even its memory footprint is smaller than XFCE at the moment.
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Because all distros are in the process of dropping Xorg support. My parents are over 70, they can learn new things, but I donât want them to learn yet another new desktop environment in 6 months. So I am looking for something that will hopefully be available in the medium run.
Good to hear this, I will give it a try then.
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Canât you keep the desktop environment, and only switch the underlying display server implementation?
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I absolutely underline this. I use KDE now for nearly twenty years, and yes in the past it was quite resource hungry compared to other DEs. But thatâs history for quite a while now.
One of the things which people sometimes let them think it is like that is, that at the very beginning baloo is indexing all the files (if you donât do something against). But when it has indexed everything it settles. I donât need the indexing, so I have disabled baloo completely.
Of course you can. I still switch here sometimes between Wayland and X11.
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I used AngrySearch for a while on Ubuntu Studio to index my filesystem and have an app that would allow me fast searching like Everything on Windows. Is it similar?
probably. both gnome and KDE have some local desktop search.