Hi! Im a Ubuntu user since long, but I’m starting to have trouble with it. Now I consider switching to another distro for my Krita workflow. But I realize I need help, this is a jungle.
My wish is to have:
Preferrably a Debian-based distro (but not necessary).
A desktop environment with stable color management (I need to calibrate my screens).
A distro that works with drawing tablets/drawing displays (Wacom, Huion or XP-pen).
Advice about X and Wayland.
(this Wayland-thing is somewhat over my head, but I think I understand that Wayland is not mature yet).
Is this possible? Do you have any advice for a simple Linux-user? Any advice will be appreciated.
I usually recommend the distribution search on Distrowatch. There you can enter requirements in an input mask and based on the requirements you will be suggested distributions that meet these requirements, for example that a distribution is Debian-based.
I generally recommend a KDE-based distribution because of the tablet support. But I’m not a Linux crack, so I hope you get more knowledgeable support.
Wayland is pretty good already, many distributions already use it and for office tasks or especially gaming it’s probably already ahead of X. But for graphics tablets it lacks some features (depending on your tablet), and I’m not sure it already has color management. Personally I like Manjaro with KDE.
I forgot to mention my preferred Distribution is SUSE Linux Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma, it is a so-called “rolling release”, means it automatically searches for updates and reminds you to install them if updates were found. This way, your Linux is always up-to-date.
If you are using X11 then colour calibration can be done on both gnome and KDE. Use display cal to profile and calibrate and then use the resulting profile in system settings.
On Wayland it is not yet mature the protocol is still being worked on and the implementation in DE is really new, so you can’t be sure if it is correct.
Use any distro possibly one with community backing rather than corporate one. Debian seems good to me. And use X11 for now.
It is limited to srgb and that too apps won’t have a way to utilise the monitor profile so the colour management is limited to only kwin and the desktop. It is not useful for the apps.
So krita or inkscape doesn’t even know what monitor profile is and kwin will assume srgb for the apps so no not accurate colour management.
Also if you want to work on CMYK or Adobe rgb then good luck.
Thank you Raghukamath. Right now I am looking at Debian, KDE Neon and Q4OS. I hesitant to Debian in one way, that it might be for tech savvy people? But at the same time, it might be a good learning experience. It’s a stable and established distro after all, and it is probably not going away for quite a while.
It is completely fine for non tech savy people. In fact debian goes out of the way to pre configure things so much that people that like to tinker do not like it. For example if you install a application for example CUPS printer utility it will by default enable the service while Arch and others might not.
Glad that it helps. Also note that all the terminally thing you see there won;t be necessary if you choose default EXT4 filesystem. You just have click next next and go through the install assuming you are installing it on a single hard disk and no dual boot.
No most probably it will detect the windows partition and provide you a way to erase the existing ones. but I am not experienced with it. I would advice to keep them on separate disks if you can.
Yes I was aware of that, but I hope that will change as the months go by, even so if the KWin problem and the proper cursor change in the applications in Plasma 6 are not solved I guess I will have to migrate to Kubuntu or Debian.
You just have click next next and go through the install assuming you are installing it on a single hard disk and no dual boot.