Vanilla gnome isn’t for me so I used to install some extensions when I used it.

After a few hopping, I stopped using Gnome, because I find that painful to :

• install the extension app (the one that allow you to download and manage the extensions, and that is usually not the one installed, it might have changed, as I stopped using Gnome for a year or even more)
• install the extensions I want
• configure the extensions

On KDE, I just have to set it as I need it.

If you do not change distributions everyday, then it’s not a big issue I guess.

But it might be troublesome for beginners trying distributions that have vanilla-close gnome to know that extensions exist. My needs are not complicated, so I only used extensions that allow me to have a dock on both of my screens, and to have the minimize button.

Go to settings;

type "build number " in the search bar;

click on the build number until you’re a dev.

Go into developer options;

type “background process limit”;

Choose the maximum number of applications you want to have in background.

Profit

What an horror ! What are you gonna do ? Use your working system ? That’s sad…

KDE : it’s the only DE where I can have 2 identical panels (app pined+ full system tray) on each of my 2 screens without installing extensions.

KDE can do what I want without having to look for extensions. Breeze theme is good enough for me, I don’t need to look for something else. So far it’s the best out of the box experience I had.

I prefer Gnome look, but I distr’hop too often to have the courage to setup the desktop every time.

I’ve seen a video where the guy installed steam on Ubuntu 24.04. Of course it was the snap. The guy usually tests distro to see of it’s easy to game on it. If the drivers are easy to install, etc…

He usually launches steam, then tests Valheim, Overwatch, Tomb Raider and cyberpunk.

Overwatch didn’t launch, cyberpunk neither. Valheim reported that a service didn’t launch. Tomb raider was OK.

Then he uninstalled the steam snap and installed the .deb one. Everything worked.

Enforcing packages is already something that people don’t appreciate on Linux, enforcing packages that don’t work is surprisingly hated.

Ubuntu is supposed to be a distro for beginners, how am I supposed to recommand a distro when I have no confidence the applications will work ?

there are a few options to make gog/epic games works with heroic, if it doesn’t work out of the box :

• using proton from steam/GE
• using steam runtime
• using protondb to know what to tweak the launch options or windows component to download via wine tricks
• copy the game in steam.

I’ve seen that a protondb user posted about cyberpunk 2077 working on heroic launcher. I hope you’ll manage to have it too.

I’m not sure for Ubuntu… I’ve seen here and there that some snap are still not as good as flatpak or .deb.

Especially the steam one where some games wouldn’t launch on the snap but do with the flatpak or the .deb. Progress are made regularly, but until the snaps aren’t on par with other packages type, I wouldn’t recommand Ubuntu for beginners.

Distro based on it, without snap, yeah sure. Pop OS, tuxedo OS, Mint, Debian… There is a lot of alternative where you do not have to struggle on forced non finished applications.

Not being 100% sure but here are my guess :

• Alpine linux
• Solus
• KaOs

QKsms premium features are free if downloaded from f-droid.

I use “simple dialer” and “simple contacts”. “Simple” applications usually work well, and their pro versions are available for free on f-droid.

“How’s life in China ?”

“We can’t complain.”

"Really, that’s great. "

“No, we seriously can’t !”

It’s complicated to prove you that my friend told me this, it was an oral conversion with no recording, but I can swear we talked a bit about it.

It was more about the applications compiled by garuda than the system itself. He told me they were communicating with Google and other stuff a lot.

I didn’t try it by myself, (and I don’t have the time to install a distribution just to check that). It might be for update, it might be nothing. That’s why I asked if he was using Garuda and that it was something he might want to check… Or not.

I hope you didn’t need to bleach your eyes after reading my post. I have corrected the error and even added a missing word in the last sentence.

Are you using garuda ?

A friend of mine tried it and found garuda’s tool really useful, but while setting his firewall, he realised that garuda send lots of data. It made him uninstall it immediatly.

If it’s a concern for you, you might want to check that.

I had the same issue than you with my internet browser and VLC (or other media players). I thought it was due to missing codecs. But even after reinstalling all of them, I got lags on video.

Now, i use flatpak for my internet browser and for VLC, everything works just fine.

There are ISO of debian with calamares installer available on debian website. The real difficulty is to find them.

I did that a few months ago, from a 3060ti to a 6700xt. Best decision since I decided to erase my windows partition.

I believe that in addition, Nvidia support for wayland was late compare to AMD.