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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by axaxs on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:54PM (#25814852)
Vanilla Gnome is terrible. You must embrace extensions. At first I loathed the idea, but it's just become part of life. One for a dock, one for weather, one for tray icons, and if you prefer, one for top menu that gives you your more traditional start menu type thing.

Or, there's always Xfce or KDE, of course.

AMD drivers are now open source and finally working well. Nvidia is not, granted.

Bluetooth audio works well, even on rando cheap noname devices I've tried. My primary speakers are some Logitech bluetooth pair.

Don't use wayland. Run gnome in xorg mode.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say I'm blown away by how much -just- works on Linux. My printer is autodetected on the network and print. My wireless mouse works. My monitor runs at 1440p.

If you're open to it, I always suggest using a modern distro that stays up to date because you get better hardware support(if using new hardware, that is). Typically, that means something Arch based, but there are distros around making that simple.

Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by no_wizard on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:30PM (#25815859)
This all highlights is a lot of choices and “do this don’t do that” kind of things I don’t like about the Linux Desktop environment, I don’t want to think about these kinds of things in my usage of a desktop. It’s a summation of everything I find lacking in the Linux desktop community
Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by axaxs on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:36PM (#25816426)
Sure, but there are a lot of distros out there that do these things for you. Solus Gnome is probably my favorite out of the box experience. It's basically pre-configured exactly how I tune Gnome myself.
Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by chii on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:45PM (#25816936)
But how would you know to use that particular distribution, before becoming an expert first and know exactly what pre-configuration to look for? Knowing this pre-configuration is as difficult as knowing how to make such pre-configurations imho.

On windows, there's no choice. On mac osx, there's no choice (unless you try to mod it yourself after the fact).

Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by Filligree on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:37PM (#25876062)
I ended up trying Solus.

It turns out I can't install it, because the installer bundles an old version of the nouveau driver, the nouveau driver crashes on my hardware, they've deleted the nvidia driver package for the version of Solus that's on the ISO (along with every other package), and there's no terminal-mode installer or any other workaround.

If you want to install Solus, and the year-old installer doesn't work in GUI mode, then you're SOL.

Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by eeperson on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:07PM (#25815590)
> Don't use wayland. Run gnome in xorg mode.

Interestingly, for me, I only see some of the issues the GP mention when using xorg instead of wayland.

Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by pjmlp on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:59AM (#25820129)
> AMD drivers are now open source and finally working well.

Only for those using modern cards, my old APU is stuck in GL 3.3, whereas the fxgl supported 4.1.

At least I can use it for GL ES 3.0 coding.