>>108790194
Just use a mac.

>>108790194
Gnome with KDE's customizability would be god-tier but unfortunately we can't have nice things. Instead we get:
>janky Windows clone that looks terrible OOTB but at least lets you customize ot
or
>stable and pretty but locked down fisherprice tier DE that tries to do dumb shit like hide the home directory in their file manager because it treats you like a retard

>>108790369
>Gnome with KDE's customizability
Then you'd not have your "stable" DE. If you just stop tinkertrannying with KDE, it would be stable too.

>>108790409
Anon I don't even tinker I just want to change basic stuff like my touchpad's scroll speed. Gnome doesn't even let you do that :/

>>108790369
>implying gnome is pretty
>wanting customizations
these contradict each other

it looks like copium, because we all know gnome objectively looks and behaves like shit
majority of gnome users would pick gnome 2 if they had the choice

>>108790194
Haven't even changed my wallpaper (LXQt). My gooey doesn't rly feature in my workflow, I handle almost every task via Terminator & Firefox. Even start the latter thru the former.

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>>108790194
>install xfce
>works out of the box, change the taskbar a bit and it's good to go
>install kde plasma
>works out of the box with no issues, barely change anything, sometimes after a patch I get malfunctions which resolve quickly, normie gf thinks it looks better than Windows
what more do you really need? like if you're going to be autistic about how your WM/DE looks of course you're going to be tinkering for a while

>>108791001
>2 rupees have been deposited to your account

>>108791032
>Not having an xfce equivalent gf
Ngmi, lad.

>>108791051
she just hasn't seen my xfce install desu

>>108790194
Tinkering is part of the fun. Besides, once you're done setting up your WM, you don't have to touch it anymore. My Openbox config file has barely changed in years. I'm currently playing with labwc to see how usable Wayland is, and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed with the state of it. I could probably switch right now if I wanted to.

>>108790194
>>WMs just invite tinker land
Just install DWM and don't tinker with it, or hyprland and remove everything until it's like DWM. You don't need more.

>>108791001
This. I need linux for some things, so WSL obviates any need for dual boot.

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>>108790194
Linux Mint Cinnamon
Fedora Budgie Atomic
Zorin OS core

There, you're welcome retard. These three looks like your wincancer, are ready to go without anything you may regard as "tinkering" and stay the fuck there.

>>108790369
>Gnome with KDE's customizability
COSMIC

>>108790194
>GNOME is for tablets
Utter bullshit because Gnome is optimized for use with a keyboard.

If you use a mouse or a touch screen you want to see loads of icons at once to choose from.
But with gnome you type what you want and it shows you just the things that match in a way that's easy to read and select.

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>>108790194
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the performance, and I've been involved in numerous distrowatch top of the list, and I have over 300k confirmed downloads....

>>108790194
>>GNOME is for tablets, wouldn’t be that bad if they used screen size effectively at all
https://github.com/ubuntu/Tiling-Assistant

>>108790194
GNOME with some extensions is really nice, it would have more positive PR if dconf editor is given a proper GUI, their devs need to stop being such huge faggots on social media too, but alas nothing in this world is perfect.

>>108790194
I dual boot Windows 11 and Manjaro.
Installing Windows 11 is a lot more work and requires more tinkering to make it usable.

>>108790194
I feel the same way. Thankfully, we have ChatGPT to help out because I've had to fix so much shit just in the past 24 hours that would've taken all week to Google and figure out. Holy fuck.

Anyway, I'm now playing the new voices38 cracked Stellar Blade on CachyOS with my DualSense on my overclocked laptop at full graphic settings without DLSS at ~85 FPS and having a fun morning at work and still had time to study for college.

>>108791605
But a nicely setup Windows11 becomes the best OS in the world.

>>108790194
>>KDE looks and feels so unpolished you just feel the need to mess with things
beats winblows

>>108791879
No not even close

>>108790194
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but everytime I use my fedora partition, something breaks. The three issues I had to deal with today were:
- Signal has a permanent notification badge that doesn't go away
- Chrome is unable to start all of a sudden.
- My online account logged itself out and refuses to log back in.

Today I have no time to troubleshoot, so I restarted into my 11 pro partition. Everything jest werksm, of course.

Maybe I should go for mint or ubuntu, I want to stick to linux in the long run.

Honestly I use GNOME after a good amount of time using Plasma and it's alright. Except for the file manager which is unfuckable, I'm getting around everything else just fine. Extensions do a lot. Today I found an extension that fixes the retardation of trying to take a screenshot of a selected area and not being able to do it quickly just by using my mouse (GhostShot).

>>108793239
>Signal has a permanent notification badge that doesn't go away
if you're using dash to dock just type

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-icons-emblems false

otherwise there's probably a notification in your history you haven't dismissed yet. I'd also start Chrome via terminal and see what shows up, and if the account issue is on the browser I'd wager it's a keyring thing.

>>108793343
Thanks. I've had some issues with chrome before, that I also managed to fix by running it through the terminal. It's just an example of linux being annoying while I wish it would also just work.

>>108793367
>program doesn't open
>launch via terminal to view error message
>it opens normally
a tale as old as time, glad it helped.

>>108793239
GNOME issue.

>>108793447
Yeah probably. I have an old laptop with mint and it doesn't have half these issues.

>>108791879
Fucking kek. That's called a self-report, Rajeshi.

>>108790194
I use almost out of the box i3wm, except for picom (only added vsync) and feh (for desktop wallpaper) startup, change of font, and a few more variables in the bar.

>>108790194
Windows is for people.
Linux is for server admins.
Mac is for women.

>>108790194
Just use an AI agent to tinker for you.

>>108791032
>normie gf thinks it looks better than Windows
And we should care about this why?

Tourists I swear