You can use a combination of shift, meta, pgup/pgdown and arrow keys to move between workspaces and to move applications between workspaces, and you can alt-tab to switch window focus within a workspace. window management and manipulation can be entirely keyboard-driven

edit: i just pulled out my laptop to find out how you do it. i only know from muscle memory.

super(windows) + pgup/pgdown to move between workspaces

shift + super + pgup/pgdown to move focused window between workspaces

and of course

super + left/right to tile

super + up to maximize

super + down to un-maximize

super + h to minimize

super + number to launch from the dash

Fedora has gotten much more stable and reliable in the past decade. 15+ years ago it was generally regarded as nice but unstable. I’d say nowadays for a moderately technical user it offers a better experience overall than Ubuntu or Mint. There are still unfortunately some pitfalls for new users (media codecs come to mind). In fact, the only issues i’ve had in most of those 10 years have been related to GNOME plugins or the Plasma 6 transition, problems that also occured on Ubuntu.

I have 2 computers: one running Ubuntu, one Fedora. This has been my setup for over a decade. I have lately been finding Ubuntu more and more cumbersome to use, with less of the “just works” experience i remember having in the past. Perhaps the focus on cloud computing has caused the desktop to languish a bit.

I would like to try Pop!_OS, but i haven’t had a free evening for a while to do a backup and reinstall on one of my computers. It’s also been a while since i used Mint, so my impression could be out of date.

The nice thing about Linux overall (compared to macOS and Windows) is that each update generally improves on the experience. On commercial platforms the experience gets worse as often as it gets better, usually both at the same time. GNOME and Plasma are both overall much better than they were a decade ago (despite a few regressions) while macOS and Windows are both worse in general.

Any distro will work once you install Nvidia drivers.

For Fedora and Ubuntu you can do it from the software center application.

If you go with Fedora you want to also look up how to install proprietary media codecs. That’s the one other thing you need to do after installation. Ubuntu has them built-in.

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I did History and Computer science and had no issues whatsoever. Most of my history work was LibreOffice writer saving to PDF or .docx formats. Printing, scanning, and using library wifi was always fine.

Computer Science kind of expected Linux, everything we did there was cross-platform already.

Built my first PC in High School from scraps. Decided to try Ubuntu 10.04 (current at the time).

I was very impressed with how much performance a free OS could get out of my awful hardware. Have been using Linux in some form as my OS ever since.

Thanks! This is probably the phenomenon i’ve been observing

Thanks!

Gnome seems to swap out default apps pretty often. Are the old apps getting abandoned? Or are they always jumping to the next cool new thing?

I like Ctrl there, Unix/Sun layout. Backspace is also an interesting idea

You’ve got me wrong, but do what you think is best.

A comprehensive reading involves slowing down and taking context into account. It was included for a reason.

To take that passage (Romans 1) and to interpret it to mean that Homosexuality should be persecuted is to ignore Jesus’ lessons in favor of one’s own hatred. That’s not Christian at all. It also ignores the rest of Romans.

Found Brendan Eich’s sockpuppet :)

A conservative can’t be a Christian, and vice versa. Jesus was absolutely clear: He cares as much about the sex of who you sleep with as He does about the fabric of your underwear. Hatred is never justified.

Homophobia is a plenty good reason not to use a browser. Eich is an unscrupulous person at best, and his name leaves a stink on any project he is involved with. Unsurprising that Brave has decided to embrace the crypto fad and is moving towards becoming an ad platform.

Brave is a scammy project founded by a scummy person. I’m not sure FOSS development can fix that as long as he is in charge.

“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"

side loading apps? or files?

Thanks! I didnt realize iTunes was still supported.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/12/transfer-music-ubuntu-iphone/amp/

Seems like you can also use the iOS VLC app to get mp3s on there

Another method is to use KDE connect to transfer the files, which would also work for your game backups

What do you use iTunes for? That stood out to me.

Also Chrome works fine on Linux, though Firefox is a better browser even on Windows.

Thanks for the detailed explanation! Very interesting

Re: packages

What software specifically are you not finding in the repos? If it’s FOSS there should be a simple way of getting it. If it’s proprietary you kind need to pick your least hated option:

• Third party repos - very hit and miss, easiest to troubleshoot, can be awesome rock solid or buggy as hell
• nix package manager - i have no experience but very popular right now
• Flatpak - can be managed by Gnome Software or KDE Discover, no system theme integration, config files are in weird places
• Snap - similar to Flatpak on Ubuntu, YMMV elsewhere
• Appimage - if no other option, similar to Windows binaries, cant self-update

I’d pick one and stick with it as much as possible. Mixing several solutions is where things get confusing (for me at least)

Re: settings

UI scaling is a rough edge on Linux. Non-integer scaling (1.25, 1.5, 1.75, etc) doesnt always give perfect results on X11, and Wayland scaling only works on Plasma, Gnome, and the various compositors. Themeing isnt really a thing on Gnome, so only Plasma has both good scaling and themeing, and Plasma is especially guilty of the “settings in 3 places” phenomenon. If you want simple menus and good themeing you can use MATE, Cinnamon, or XFCE but then you lose wayland scaling.

I have run into the same bug with Display Manager not scaling on Plasma, but i dont have this issue on Gnome or on x11 desktops. Plasma may be the common denominator here.

Re: laptop

My advice is to try to like Gnome. It’s got the best scaling support right now. Disable all extensions, learn the keyboard shortcuts for window and desktop management, learn the touchpad swipe gestures, and pretend you dont miss themeing. If you can get past the initial apprehension, you might find a modern desktop with an elegant workflow. Add back in as few extensions as you can live with; each one is a potential source of instability/bugs but as long as you keep it to a small number you should be fine. I have 4 extensions currently enabled, and i wouldnt go too much higher.

If you end up hating it then Plasma is the next best option for your hardware. Plasma is in heavy development and still has lots of small issues, but things should improve over time

or you could try Hyprland

Re: photo editing

Curious about your workflow. I do a lot of wildlife photography as a hobby and I find just Darktable to be too much. I usually end up cropping, adjusting brightness and colors, and then exporting to a jpg.

What sorts of things are you doing with your photos? I dont think i have a solution for you, just curious. Also, can you run an older version of Blender? There might be a containerized solution for that already.

Same. I’m not worried, just confused by the new language. It seems unnecessary, but I could end up being flat wrong.

I wish Mozilla would refocus on improving Firefox instead of the AI nonsense they’ve pursued lately. They havent been perfect, but if i’m going to give any faceless entity the benefit of the doubt, it’s Mozilla.

That said, i want the forks to thrive. Librewolf is pretty good. I might check out Pale Moon again to see what has(n’t) changed.

Waterfox is also good from what i remember. I used a build of it with KDE global menu support on OpenSuse for years, and i was happy with it the whole time.

RIP TenFourFox. Hopefully a new fork will emerge for powerpc and other retro computers