If KDE works for you, do you use a preinstalled distro and which one?
Has largely worked fine for me on Tumbleweed.
There is/was an issue with launching some of the ‘K’ apps causing the desktop to hard lock. But this happens very rarely.
Haven’t experienced problems like what you’re describing though.
It’s like F-Droid, but for Pagans.
And Boomkin? 🥺
GNOME’s minimalist so not sure what else to show. Technically, I shouldn’t have icons on the desktop I guess.
I have the overview (forget the actual name) on super, which is similar to GNOME’s. And also have the virtual desktops set up to horizontal only with some similar keyboard-based shortcuts for switching.
I wanted to try the “one application per desktop” paradigm, which I did and didn’t really like it, so I went back to regular alt-tabbing + overview switching but left the layout alone.
Using KDE configured like GNOME.
KNOME, if you will.
Have you tried recently?
You used to either have to install them manually, or enable the nVidia repo.
But I reinstalled Tumbleweed a few months ago and it auto-detected and added the repo for me and everything. I didn’t even have to disable nouveau first or anything like that, if I recall correctly.
Wait, there’s a Discord?
This is the year of Firefox-on-the-desktop. I can feel it.
WinAmp owners
I’m a visual person so I need to put a face to these windowlickers to laugh at in my head.
Is it this guy?
Maybe a tooling manager like mise or asdf.
snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story
I don’t remember it prominently featuring a plotline like that. That was the one with\
the nam shub or whatever? And hacking people’s brain’s with, basically, NLP?
Well if that counts, then Neuromancer by William Gibson fits in that it’s about\
removing DRM (“Turing Locks”) from AI—legit AI too, not the hallucinating parlor tricks of today. ::: 😏
Are you ok
I read this in George McFly’s voice, unoe?
There’s something very appropriate about you using all those (system) tools during an anthropology lecture.
Yeah it’s not a one-to-one conversion of course. An update few months back allowed meta to open Overview on its own though, fwiw.
I’d still like the dock in the Overview too, like yourself, but for now I just have a launcher on the bottom like dash-to-dock.
I might get eviscerated for saying this, but you can replicate the GNOME workflow fairly well on KDE—KNOME if you will.
There’s an overview similar to that in GNOME, you can set up shortcuts to mimic the keyboard+one-app-one-workspace workflow, etc.
Good luck trying to recreate Plasma with GNOME though.
Uh, just trying non-modal vim for the first time and… how do I quit it? I can’t :q.
I love the Linux world’s tradition of less serious names, in general.
Kinda like the Minds in Iain Banks’s Culture universe.
alongside Windows 11 23H2
Wasn’t there news of a Windows update breaking dual booting recently? Could be that?
That’s… What the person you replied to said in the first place.
Which Linux OS would folks recommend? OP asking you as well haha.
I’ll throw Tumbleweed into the pile of recommendations.
It comes with a rollback utility called Snapper configured OOTB. This was a big one for me and it’s what stopped me distrohopping. The only reason I didn’t stick with TW the first time I tried it (years ago) was because of issues getting my Nvidia card to work.
You can install Snapper yourself on other distros of course, but I’ve read that it’s sometimes not a trivial undertaking.
Note: Ventoy adds something to the boot params that causes issues for some, so heads up if you decide to try TW off of Ventoy.
Haven’t experienced either of those issues. Have you tried to isolate KDE in those cases? Not sure how you’d do it with the deletion because there’s no Trash for the terminal, but you could try the copy operation and see if your device is still blocked when it’s finished in the terminal?
Those are both file operations so they don’t strike me as strictly DE-related.