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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What features would I be losing if I switched to GNOME? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by tester1121@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I don't mean for this to become a KDE vs GNOME post. I'm looking at switching to Fedora (because Arch is a pain), and it seems that GNOME is more supported. I use KDE on Arch. What features would I be losing if I were to switch? (ex: toolbar management, KRunner, etc.)

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you like and trust Homebrew for packages, yes.

I have to try it, am kinda suspicious but I guess it is a good distribution method?

[–] jonwyattphillips@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had never used homebrew before switching to bluefin. Honestly I still hardly use it. Most gui things I can find flatpaks and command line stuff I'll search homebrew, but just as easy to open Ubuntu distrobox and apt install or install a .deb

I love that everything is updating constantly. That you can roll back easily if you mess something bad. That all system files are immutable so. Also super easy to rebase from to bluefin to ublue to Aurora to Bazzite to kinoite.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

I dont get why they push Ubuntu so much. I use a Fedora toolbox which works great... apart from the fact that there is no damn upgrade! So only rawhide possible, lol.

Rebasing and rpm-ostree are truly beautiful. And adapting to it, for example packaging stuff written to /usr into an RPM, is interesting.

I have at least 2 use cases (placing different SDDM launch scripts, SDDM themes and something else) that need to be written to the immutable directory.

I think documenting how to package "put script abc to /usr/foo/bar" into an RPM, or even automate it, will be lit. Will try to figure that out when I have time.

Lunarequest did this with sddm2rpm but only for that job.