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  • I have extensions that do small QOL things. I can still use GNOME just fine without a single one of them enabled.

    How do you cope with the lack of a dock and system tray?

    I don’t cope with that. I don’t really see a huge benefit to having a system tray. Before GNOME 44 added the background apps view to the quick settings menu I just put anything that was ‘background’ into a workspace. Even after 44 I still have this habit and rarely actually need the background view.

    As for the dock argument I’m not sure what an always visible dock would provide that the current dash does not. I think I might even prefer the current dash over an always visible dock. Whenever I want to switch windows I just go to the overview and pick out whatever window I want. It’s a lot easier to hit a huge window than to have to target a small icon at the bottom of the display.

    I understand that some people might disagree but I actually love what GNOME does (most of the time).



  • I use neovim for the vast majority of the programming I do but I do still have VSCode installed. Maybe I should just delete it? I opened it after I saw this post and there was a whole bunch of extension updates just sitting there.

    Kinda wish GNOME builder was a bit better at being a general purpose editor. That’s just because I’m a bit of a GNOME/GTK pervert though and I would love to use a sexy looking app for dev work.






  • ronweasleysl@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlDistrobox in practice
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    1 year ago

    The immediate advantage is that you could get newer mesa in your distrobox but continue to use a stable one in the host so that it doesn’t fuck up your more important work. I switched to using containers or flatpaks for everything on my system a while ago. I have a distrobox for running odd games I get off Itch and stuff like Steam/Bottles is from flatpak. I even run Silverblue now and haven’t had any major issues for about 2 years at this point. Hell I was switching between GNOME 45 Beta and 44 Stable like it was no big deal.