After years of distro hopping, I had one to many updates which borked some driver & realized what I’m really looking for is my laptop should be boring stable appliance. Incredibly happy with it so far.

  • ApplyingAutomation@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    I must say, I did go the KDE route. I haven’t given gnome a shot in awhile ~ I just recall needing so many gnome extensions. Would you say that’s changed?

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      You only “need” extensions if you want them. GNOME by default is its own thing that’s pretty different from win11 and kde - everything goes through the overview, things like desktop icons and dash to dock break the intended experience.

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        I’m using gnome right now on one pc, but i did install Dolphin lol. The default file manager on gnome crashes copying files from the server

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      It probably depends on what you want or need from a desktop environment. I use Fedora with Gnome and I quite like it. The one thing I didn’t like was that you can’t alt-tab between multiple windows of a single application.

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        you can’t alt-tab between multiple windows of a single application.

        You can. Alt + ~

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            You can just rebind the shortcut if you’re not using an english keyboard. It’s under Navigation, “Switch windows of an application”.