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  • Which Desktop Environment Do Arch Linux Users Prefer

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  • Wouldn't that mean the opposite - that you are actually not very experienced, or knowledgeable at least about arch? I've been using arch for a couple of years and "heard" of it just fine.

  • Which Desktop Environment Do Arch Linux Users Prefer

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  • The majority of users, especially experienced ones don't enable pkgstats.

    Why would an experienced user not enable pkgstats? Anyways the biggest bias here is that arch inherently caters to power users which are going to have very different needs and likes than regular people.

  • Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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  • Fractional scaling is a compositor issue, not a linux issue, so in this case kwin. But yes, fractional scaling in general is always problematic as there's no way to cleanly multiply pixels by fractions, so you get wonky fonts, UI that doesn't quite fit... and whatever hacks your compositor has on top to make it look better, it's best to avoid it if possible and only increase the font size.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Downstream distros are a bit of a special case, as they don't really test these packages so much as inherit them from upstream, so what you're actually getting is ubuntu's and debian's version of GNOME in Mint for example. If you're going to do that, I'd just cut out the middleman and go upstream here as Mint isn't bringing anything of value, worse it's just another vector for untested bugs.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=297558. this is just the first thing that came up, i'm sure there are hundreds of similar bugs. bottom line is when you install two things next to each other that aren't being actively tested together, you're bound to run into issues.

    My recommendation is that if there are no spin with your favorite DE, you simply do not use that distribution as it's not being tested against.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • I have no idea what you're talking about.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Switching desktop environments can be tricky, it's better to do a clean install - especially for dotfiles which can cause bugs, and get the distro spin that you want from the get-go.

  • Nautilus File Manager In GNOME 50 Will Load Thumbnails Much Faster

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  • Nautilus already features the tree-view as an option which lets you "jump" laterally, it's in the preferences as "Expandable Folders in List View". Personally i prefer moving up and down the file hierarchy, you have less information to process and you can navigate with the mouse button shortcuts.

  • Nautilus File Manager In GNOME 50 Will Load Thumbnails Much Faster

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  • I'll take the faster loading thumbnails instead, thanks.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • There's no arch hate, it's just not a distribution for new users. Your downstream distribution might be a bit better at handling the arch quirks by default, but i guarantee you it doesn't go through the same testing that new Fedora solutions go through before new releases for example. I'm glad you found something that suited you, but for most people, people that will never try to bypass the immutability in the first place, Bazzite is better ootb.

  • Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

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  • Bazzite is downstream from fedora, which i'll remind you is partially handled by red hat, aka a large ass company with "a lot of money to throw into things". The bazzite developers only handle a smaller portion of the maintenance that distributions require, and really only as much as they want and are confident in handling.

  • GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades

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  • The CSDs vs SSDs has very little to do with users, it's about pushing application developers to create their own decorations and get rid of the awful title bar. In the end GNOME caved and created libdecor and now I still have half my applications with an extra bar that has literally 1 button.

  • GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades

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  • People just want things to never change. How many of those users do you think actually bothered to look into why GNOME won't implement SSDs?

  • Why do game devs keep making horrible Linux Ports?

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  • We're not talking about the same thing. GNOME did get rid of titlebars, most core applications use sidebars and the rest use headerbars - which are better integrated titlebars. I suggest reading the article.

  • GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades

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  • Yeah accessibility features tend to be last in line. The good news is that getting rid of x11 will put a fire under people to get it done.

  • Why do game devs keep making horrible Linux Ports?

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  • Why do game devs keep making horrible Linux Ports?

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  • It's a none issue these days because toolkits and engines are gonna implement their own decorations anyways and for everyone else there's libdecor.

  • Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025

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  • Extensions are third party, meaning if they are broken you need to complain to the extension developer. If you want to use extensions on GNOME i recommend keeping to the popular ones (dock, justperfection...) as they are regularly updated, and to hold off from upgrading GNOME asap to give the extension developers time to update.

    The thing about customizing is that it's never free, someone has to write in the feature and someone has to keep it up to date, which is why GNOME delegates a lot of its customization to third parties allowing a more stable experience and faster development.

    I think the problem you have with GNOME is more about you refusing to learn new ways to interact with your pc and instead trying to mold GNOME into what you think the desktop experience should be, and that's always going to be an uphill battle.

  • Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025

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  • It's easy to forget what these "tiny" percents represent but steam has 132 million monthly active users, 3 percent of that means that we now have over 3 million linux players.