Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.
Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.
Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.
EDIT: I’d avoid bazzite in general. They have great marketing and it works. But as an Immutable distro, aka read-only, it can give inexperienced users unique challenges to learning Linux. Caveats apply obviously and if you like it and it’s working for you that’s rad too. I’m a cranky bitch but I’m all about people enjoying their stuff to the max in their own way. And the more nerds using Linux the merrier.
I stick with X over Wayland but I’m an nvidia loser. I’m on fedora but would not recommend it to someone just starting out. Same with straight up Debian or arch. They’re all great if you know what you’re doing. But distros exist for a reason.
CachyOS/EndeavorOs. Rock on. I loved these and they’re my fallback if fedora or lmde makes me mad or I want need arch for some homelab thing. I’m weary of the AUR though, making arch kinda pointless for me.
This may have been true at one point but gnome apps started removing basic functionality and hiding what was there in a horrible disorganised burger menu instead of traditional menus.
You’re not wrong. It’s a pick your poison sort of thing. I’m not in love with the burger menus either. KDE apps just feel bloated and fragile to me. (and have forever) I used to like Windows though, in a galaxy far, far away. So my opinion is probably whack.
I love nemo, with the terminal extension, it’s the perfect file manager.
I use it on gnome though.
With just arcmenu, dash to panel, and tophat, gnome becomes pretty solid for me, everything else is just a bonus
dropdownterminal, I think openbar for color and border customization, timer in topbar for self timing work assignments, appstatus whatever its called for the background apps to show up, it does rely on extensions, but I see that as a bonus, it’s up to you how complicated you want your setup to be
Burnmywindows ofc
I also think its great for handhelds, have dash to panel and arcmenu there too but configured differently. On the left side and resized larger with less options and one of the larger grid options for arc menu
Really? I remember Nemo being my favorite GTK file manager, but that was some years ago.
When I started using Dolphin I thought that it was the best file manager I’ve ever used. I still think that, but as mentioned above, I’ve not tried Nemo in years.
I distributed/DE/WM hopped a ton over the last year. I’ve wanted to live KDE/KDE apps for the last 20 years. Dolphin is fine, Nemo is just exactly what I want it to be. It also runs fairly well from the terminal over ssh and I can configure it fast since it doesn’t need a ton of tweaking. Dual pane and terminal plugin like was mentioned in another comment.
You may fail to understand this if you are not a programmer but Dolphin is somehow both singleton and multi instance.
Its messy code is mostly made for single instance meanwhile there can be multiple dolphin instances.
The most basic way to observe this is to simply open a second dolphin window in a different folder. New Dolphin will bring tabs from the old Dolphin likely because it thinks those are previously closed tabs meanwhile nothing changes in old Dolphin window. What a mess.
Just tested ‘the most basic way’ and it doesn’t has this behaviour neither on my machine, nor in vm. Are you sure that it isn’t just something that you configured? Anyway it’s one of the best file managers.
Honestly I’d start with the default config file to see if you like the general workflow and then begin modifying as you see fit. That’s how I started way back when I first learned i3.
Maybe first replace it’s default swaybar with the more customizable waybar.
I threw the fedora 43 i3 spin on a box. So far so good. I haven’t rage quit back to cinnamon yet. Ended up chickening out and did i3 because I have Wayland nvidia multi monitor trauma. So I’ll ride X out a little longer.
Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.
Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.
Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.
EDIT: I’d avoid bazzite in general. They have great marketing and it works. But as an Immutable distro, aka read-only, it can give inexperienced users unique challenges to learning Linux. Caveats apply obviously and if you like it and it’s working for you that’s rad too. I’m a cranky bitch but I’m all about people enjoying their stuff to the max in their own way. And the more nerds using Linux the merrier.
I stick with X over Wayland but I’m an nvidia loser. I’m on fedora but would not recommend it to someone just starting out. Same with straight up Debian or arch. They’re all great if you know what you’re doing. But distros exist for a reason.
CachyOS/EndeavorOs. Rock on. I loved these and they’re my fallback if fedora or lmde makes me mad or I want need arch for some homelab thing. I’m weary of the AUR though, making arch kinda pointless for me.
This may have been true at one point but gnome apps started removing basic functionality and hiding what was there in a horrible disorganised burger menu instead of traditional menus.
You’re not wrong. It’s a pick your poison sort of thing. I’m not in love with the burger menus either. KDE apps just feel bloated and fragile to me. (and have forever) I used to like Windows though, in a galaxy far, far away. So my opinion is probably whack.
Gparted isn’t a gnome app, it’s a standalone app. Dolphin can do everything that nemo does. 🙃
No kidding…… interesting. It’s true that dolphin can do everything Nemo does, just poorly.
I love nemo, with the terminal extension, it’s the perfect file manager.
I use it on gnome though.
With just arcmenu, dash to panel, and tophat, gnome becomes pretty solid for me, everything else is just a bonus
dropdownterminal, I think openbar for color and border customization, timer in topbar for self timing work assignments, appstatus whatever its called for the background apps to show up, it does rely on extensions, but I see that as a bonus, it’s up to you how complicated you want your setup to be
Burnmywindows ofc
I also think its great for handhelds, have dash to panel and arcmenu there too but configured differently. On the left side and resized larger with less options and one of the larger grid options for arc menu
Really? I remember Nemo being my favorite GTK file manager, but that was some years ago. When I started using Dolphin I thought that it was the best file manager I’ve ever used. I still think that, but as mentioned above, I’ve not tried Nemo in years.
I distributed/DE/WM hopped a ton over the last year. I’ve wanted to live KDE/KDE apps for the last 20 years. Dolphin is fine, Nemo is just exactly what I want it to be. It also runs fairly well from the terminal over ssh and I can configure it fast since it doesn’t need a ton of tweaking. Dual pane and terminal plugin like was mentioned in another comment.
How dare you :P Dolphin is great; always use Gnome-Disks though (and GParted Live in the times of yore)
You may fail to understand this if you are not a programmer but Dolphin is somehow both singleton and multi instance.
Its messy code is mostly made for single instance meanwhile there can be multiple dolphin instances.
The most basic way to observe this is to simply open a second dolphin window in a different folder. New Dolphin will bring tabs from the old Dolphin likely because it thinks those are previously closed tabs meanwhile nothing changes in old Dolphin window. What a mess.
Just tested ‘the most basic way’ and it doesn’t has this behaviour neither on my machine, nor in vm. Are you sure that it isn’t just something that you configured? Anyway it’s one of the best file managers.
Happy sway user here! Not sure I could ever go back to a floating window manager. I’m too used to tiling now.
Any advice? Or some good dot files / configs / guide you used?
Honestly I’d start with the default config file to see if you like the general workflow and then begin modifying as you see fit. That’s how I started way back when I first learned i3.
Maybe first replace it’s default swaybar with the more customizable waybar.
I threw the fedora 43 i3 spin on a box. So far so good. I haven’t rage quit back to cinnamon yet. Ended up chickening out and did i3 because I have Wayland nvidia multi monitor trauma. So I’ll ride X out a little longer.
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