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Two years into full-time Linux and I’m finally burning the distro-hopping cycle. I fell for the Arch/AUR trap for a while, but I got tired of spending my weekends debugging file manager crashes instead of maintaining my home lab.

Switched back to Fedora, and it’s boring in exactly the way I need it to be. It’s a stable launchpad for my projects, not the project itself.

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[–] Asonyxi@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Luckily for me, I switched from Cachy to Fedora kde right before the AUR attacks started happening. Fedora honestly feels like home to me now. I customized it to have a very Gnome like workflow, and its working flawlessly for me.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

Dude, if you documented your process for this, could you share the configuration with me, please? I've been trying (on and off) to do precisely that because of how walled GNOME has become between GNOME 39 and now, but my results have been "less than spectacular" to say the least. I think I just need a starting point, but the videos on YouTube about that are not really practical. I'm on GNOME because I just love the whole workflow, but would rather be on Plasma with the Gnome workflow if possible. That would be great. If not, well FUCK YOU! Just kidding, lol (about the fuck you, I still would love a starting point on this 🤣)

[–] mik3dd0@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Gnome has slowly become like a DE made by Apple. Even trying to configure it to use a screen shot app other than the integrated one is a fucking chore, they want you to forcibly use theirs, which is great for basic screen shooting, but I'm more of a flames hot fan because of how seamless it is to annotate on any shot instead of taking the shot, having to use a second app to edit/annotate, and then, I don't know when it started, but every screenshot gets saved as a picture now, no way to just use it with the clipboard and let it disappear on the next SC or copy.

Then there's the mentality. In GNOME If a feature doesn’t fit the design language, no matter how popular, it's rejected. Dissenting opinions on design choices are almost always met with "trust the process."

[–] Asonyxi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Isnt gnome a bit more resource intensive? also like the option of more customization if i ever wanna change the layout or aesthetic.

[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

You can customize gnome pretty far. The code to have normal human minimize/maximize/close buttons is all still there, and the window bar is there as well. You just have to know which programs to pull from dnf that know what ~~registry~~ dconf settings to adjust. I have yet to find a use case for nautilus between Dolphin (KDE) and using a terminal.