Share your daily driver computer setup

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  1. Alienware laptop with Intel iGPU and Nvidia dGPU

  2. Fedora KDE Wayland

  • Beginner-friendly Linux distro recommended by Privacy Guides that Mullvad VPN officially supports
  • No need to disable secure boot to successfully install proprietary Nvidia drivers
  • KDE supports functional[1] fractional scaling out-of-the-box, which I need to comfortably use my laptop
  1. I prefer Flatpaks for almost all apps and use KDE’s Flatpak Permission Settings to restrict broad and unneeded permissions, and force non-gaming apps to use only Wayland.
  • Browsers
    • Firefox
    • Mullvad Browser, with env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 added to its .desktop file
    • Brave, with #ozone-platform-hint flag set to “Wayland” in brave://flags/
  • Other preferred apps
    • Mullvad VPN
    • Anytype, with --ozone-platform=wayland[2] added to its .desktop file to launch the app in a Wayland window
    • Bottles
    • Heroic Games Launcher, another Electron app that can use --ozone-platform=wayland
    • Gwenview

  1. KDE’s implementation of fractional scaling (found in their Display Configuration settings) lets X11 apps running via XWayland to apply scaling themselves, which avoids blurriness. ↩︎

  2. Edit: it seems that the --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform flag is not needed (tested using Kwin debug console) ↩︎