Turns out she needs a bit of proprietary software (pixum for photo books) that I could not install on EndlessOS. So I had to change course and installed pop os. So far I am pleasantly suprised. Even though I thought I would not like it, their take on GNOME makes sense to me. Tiling is fun.
PopOS is currently developing their own spin on a immutable OS, but that’s still a long way from shipping to users. I’m curious, if other distros broke, why would it be different with current PopOS?
I’m really looking forward to their implementation of tiling. If they manage to design a desktop which stays mostly out of the way while delivering 1st class tiling I’ll give it a shot. Gnome does have extensions, but they just don’t feel right to me (buggy etc), unlike what the likes of sway and hyprland deliver.
It would’ve been great if they contributed to Gnome instead, but there was some bad blood between them iirc. And it’s open whether it’ll be another Unity and how well other distros implement it.
Pop is great, my only complaint is their posterized stylized default backgrounds. It is their look, but might be a turnoff for some wanting a more polished pro look like ElementaryOS default.
VNC is a graphical tool to show a desktop GUI and is far from needed to show the contents of the filsystem. Do you even have a GUI installed on it and, if it’s supposed to act as a server, why would you want to?
Coming from Windows, gnome was the desktop that taught me how to use and appreciate multiple workspaces. I’m now entirely sold on KDE, but there’s something to be said about the gnome workflow.
I use Duplicacy to encrypt and backup my data to OneDrive on a schedule. If Proton ever creates a Linux client for Drive, then I’ll switch to that, but I’m not holding my breath.
i like the consistency, smoothness, ease of use and customizability of gnome. you can find an extension for anything. however, the stock layout is pretty barebones. it forces you to learn to use it the way the developer team intended. it’s great that the team has a clear vision of what they want gnome to be, but for me personally, it lacks some things that i’m used to from years of using windows.
I like GNOME 40 more than GNOME 3 because it’s prettier.
I like GNOME in general because it’s stable with pretty, high quality bundled programs.
I like the UX. It takes all the good things about the macOS UX and makes them better, while taking all the bad things and making them less stupid.
I like that they completely separate the dock from normal window management, so I never hit it when my cursor reaches the edge of the screen.
I like that you can set Nautilus to use one-click to open folders, even though that is cribbed from Dolphin. (Even if I use lf most of the time)
I like the simple IBus integration that lets me setup my Japanese IME easily.
What I dislike:
I dislike that I need a system tray extension for some software.
I dislike how in-your-face the notifications are and that they can’t be stacked.
I dislike that I need to use Dconf to set shortcuts for workspaces 5-10.
I dislike needing GNOME Tweaks to set autostart software/daemons—this is a basic feature, not a “tweak”.
I dislike not having an easy way to port my settings for GNOME to a new computer. It’s annoying to have to set all this stuff up again compared to Sway, where I clone a repository and copy some config files over.
I dislike the new screenshot tool in GNOME 40+. It automatically saves photos to a directory, rather than letting me copy it. Come to think of it, I also dislike that it doesn’t support the same screenshot protocols Sway does for grim and slurp, which is my favorite screenshot workflow.
Glad to help! Just keep in mind that what you’re doing there is dumping the entire dconf settings tree and applying it as is. That will include a lot of things you don’t want/care about, including state data of certain applications. You should probably sift through the dump file and throw stuff out before loading it again, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
I’ll keep that in mind. The main thing is changing keyboard shortcuts—I like most of the defaults in GNOME. In theory, this should actually be easier to port over to new computers than Sway, because I only need to import one configuration dump.
I mean, I probably could have written a Makefile or something for my dotfiles repository but I’m lazy…
I like a lot of pre-customised versions of GNOME like with Ubuntu or Pop!_OS but (and I’m currently using this on Fedora) the default “out of the box” GNOME experience is a bit rough and unfriendly. Sure I’ve got it customised now with some fancy top panel stuff but its still clear I just shoehorned in a bunch of GNOME extensions - and I’m still yet to find a tray that is 1) still supported and 2) to my liking.
I’ve been taking incremental backups with borgbackup using Vorta as a frontend, was nice and simple to set up and haven’t had any issues with it so far.
I like Gnome Shell. It’s polished and extensible. Libadwaita and the header bars are nice as well. I generally prefer nautilus to dolphin, even if I hate having to ctrl-l to edit the path.
I use KDE however because Mutter is still dogshit slow, especially in wayland. My work PC has a R5 3600, RX 570, and 48GB ram and it struggles to maintain 60fps across 3 1080p monitors. KWin runs significantly better, so I use KDE and just configure it like I would Gnome.
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