• Dil@is.hardlywork.ing
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    1 day ago

    The real hard part of linux is decision. I’m indecisive af so deciding a distro and then a de took forever. I’m still going back and forth on gnome and plasma. My only issue with gnome is I cant seem to get my top bar centered (cant find extensions) and only in the middle which was easy on plasma.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      If you are indecisive, and want to game, get Nobara.

      Its pretty much ready to go out of the box, regularly updates, and has tools to make updating things like SteamTinkerLaunch and GEProton easy and effortless.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah the amount of choices is overwhelming. Luckily desktop environment shouldn’t make or break the experience for anyone. KDE is kind of buggy, but there are so many customization choices. Ultimately I still ended up preferring cinnamon.

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      8 hours ago

      What do you mean “centered”? The top bar is top, and the clock is centered.

      • Dil@is.hardlywork.ing
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        4 hours ago

        On kde I can have a bottom bar plus a top bar that is only in the middle not the edges, I like the notch look, only way I can get a top bar in gnome is slightly notched it still goes all the way to the edge. Or I can have no bottom bar and then I can have the top bar centered using gnome to panel, but I like having both. Its just annoying to get exactly right unlike kde, but has more extensions I like right now. Idk, im having issues with extensions not working after reboot, like arcmenu, which i need for gnome to be usable, so far now ive swapped back to plasma.

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        14 hours ago

        cinnamon is like the perfect middle ground. it’s not as painful to use as gnome, not as buggy as kde, but it still has a ton of customization.

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          9 hours ago

          Yeah. I had a perfect gnome setup for myself, but then arc menu stopped working with dock to panel randomly and now wont turn on. No idea how to uninstall it.

          • Petter1@lemm.ee
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            8 hours ago

            Go for opensuse tw with plasma 😇then you have always the newest tested snapshot

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            12 hours ago

            fighting is a good way to describe it. i see why people like it, i just don’t know how they can stand it. i would love it if it was as stable as the others. btw kubuntu lts uses a very old plasma version, it’s probably going to be better if they ever finish updating it to 6.

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      12 hours ago

      yeah we tend to distrohop a bit before settling with something, and maybe something will change down the line that makes you wanna hop again.

      its part of the process for some people.