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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, my GNOME desktop on Linux is just a picture. Apps, and files are indexed, you hit the "windows" key, commonly accessed apps are on a popup dock, as you start to type you get an immediate list of matches, whether its apps, filenames or file contents.

Never needed to add shortcuts

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have the same setup on Nobara with kRunner.

    Mac has spotlight and it works pretty well. Windows start menu has similar functionality as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Windows indexing is garbage: if I type the name of an app in the search it can't find stuff that has been installed, and sometimes it likes less keystrokes, as in exc will show excel, exce will remove excel as a choice. And file indexing (even though I have the folders added to search indexing) just doesn't find stuff, its basically a directory crawler. Where on Linux it's instant

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm a computer idiot. I know Lemmy is full of techy people who can explain to me in exhaustive (and exhausting...) detail why Gnome is evil or horrible or designed by morons or whatever. It seems to be the most popular position. But I fucking love it. I use Linux for ideological reasons, and because I'm a computer idiot, and it's safer from viruses, and with an immutable OS I'm less likely to bork my shit. I came from windows, and since the switch around 5 years ago, I've never been happier. It feels clean, and fun, and so easy to use. It's perfect for my touchscreen, when I flip my laptop over and use it as a tablet. It's fantastic for keyboard controls when I don't want to fuck with a mouse. The mouse gestures are amazing when I don't want to fuck with a keyboard. I use Fedora because I love stock* Gnome. Ubuntu was okay, but that basic Gnome experience is just frickin fabulous.

    *Okay, not stock. There's a few extension. But not many!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Gnome gets hate because many Linux users like configurability, and on the user end Gnome is pretty much "here is what you get."

    But on the backend Gnome is configurable (zorin used this to make 4 unique desktop setup preferences)

    But Gnome feels fully cohesive and finished to me. Like an appliance GUI.

    I hate going back to Windows style start menu, it feels so counter productive

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