Re:Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Wind...
by mih on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:37AM
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Gnome does indeed look better out of the box, but I am not in favour of installing extensions for customization. This is something that KDE shines at, with loads of options to tweak appearance and behaviour. XFCE and other tiling managers, I've tried briefly but I always find myself reverting back to Plasma desktop. Without a unifying force behind Linux desktop (Freedesktop helped to some degree), I have come to accept that things will always be shaky in desktopland - the price of freedom of choice.
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Re:Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Wind...
by lorenzhs on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:51AM
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Yup, the extensions are annoying, but luckily many are packaged, at least in Debian. I have one to get sane Alt-Tab behaviour, a media player indicator, a weather extension (in the middle of the top bar, next to the clock), one to get a suspend button, and another one to arrange my workspaces in a grid. Of those, only the last one isn't part of the gnome-shell-extension* packages. It's annoying to have to use a "tweak tool" to manage this stuff.