Cyno

I was aware of some people trying to get it working on wine but last I checked it wasn't really going anywhere, there were some big blockers there, and I didn't know the developers were interested in it at all.

Fork and VS are probably the top 2 pieces of software I'm missing to fully migrate to linux so I'd be very happy if they developed an official port that works as well as it does on win.

although they are experimenting with it)

Do you have a source for this maybe? This is very exciting news but I don't wanna get my hopes up if it's not true

I guess I just don't trust myself (or the system) to keep stuff organized unless I do it meticulously myself from the start in a neat hierarchy. I'll try to use search more often since it does seem fast and sleek and see how it works out. The only annoying part about it is that it always defaults to my primary display for search even if im focused on the second monitor

Do you know of a good guide on how to use search better, like can I narrow so it only shows files and folders, or maybe match to a regex like *.js? it doesn't really find specific files when i search for them, is it supposed to work with other mounted drives as well?

gnome-shell-pano looks great but is it abandoned? It says my current (newest i assume) gnome shell version is not supported by the extension. Does it open the paste window where your mouse focus is (and on the correct monitor if you have more than one)? CH always opens it on the main display even if i'm focused on the secondary, its horrible...

I found I already have an installed gnome extension 'hot edge' that is supposed to do dock opening when hitting the edge, although i do have issues with it sometimes not triggering, it seems very focus sensitive but it's definitely better than nothing.

It's definitely an interesting experience and I don't want it to replicate windows, but i guess i need to come to terms with some design decisions that will feel unnatural after using windows for almost 20 years now.

VScodium

I tried this but it seems that VSCodium is missing many of the extensions that are available on VSCode, it has something to do with them using different extension registries?

In any case thanks for the advice but they don't seem to be completely equal in terms of features

It's been a while since I used ubuntu and popOS was only for a few days so maybe I was just mistaken, I remember it being somewhat comparable to a classic desktop at the time but it could have been that cosmic shell thing. And tbh until so far I thought cinnamon is gnome so it seems like I was just outright wrong about that one, thanks for clarifying

I'm definitely willing to try bazzite's gnome3 for a while, i just wasn't sure what's the default anymore and if it's bazzite doing something out of the norm or if the ubuntu based distros did.

tl;dr KB+M and no touchpad here so that might have something to do with it, I prefer more compact and colorful UIs, and different behavior between LMB and RMB.

I'm not a big fan of the Nautilus file manager, all the rows seem too big and too padded. There is no compact mode and from what I've read changing the default file manager is a big no-no in linux since the OS depends on it (and I did try to install Dolphin just to compare but the theme was unusable with bazzite). I can't even pin other drives to the left navigation pane, only folders? The monochromatic theme is neat but just makes it more difficult to tell things apart, gimme some color please yellow folders.

I know the no desktop decision is "since they always get cluttered anyways", but making me use a folder instead will just force me to use a cluttered folder instead, or more likely keep stuff in Downloads. At least with the desktop I can visually arrange it.

I miss the taskbar for switching apps. I do agree pressing the win/command button is neat and practical but sometimes I just want to switch to a different app on my second monitor using mouse only (or see notifications from it) without moving my keyboard hand.

Then it's the small things - I did install the clipboard manager gnome extension (because copyq doesn't work with wayland apparently) but it always opens it in a corner, not on my mouse location.

Systray - left and right mouse buttons do the same thing and doubleclicking does nothing? For example to open the steam window from it I always have to click it, go down to library and click again, this is the default behavior of RMB in other OSes and here it's the only behavior.

Minimizing something and then immediately alt-tabbing doesn't bring that window back up, some focus issue? Two monitors issue? Dunno but annoying.

Is gnome 3 the one without a desktop? The only thing I can figure out with gnome-shell --version is that bazzite uses 46.4

There is a KDE variant of bazzite I might try but I dont know what can of worms is that going to open

How will manually retyping git pull or checkout 30+ times a day, or using the terminal log instead of a nice GUI with VSCode integration, teach me to solve other complicated issues? I just don't really see the benefit of struggling for most of the time for something that might or might not happen later

When you need more advanced stuff then GUIs tend to become more of a sticking point I find

What's stopping you just opening the terminal in those rare cases? For 99% of my daily needs I'm good with a good GUI

I'll give it a try, thanks. Maybe I was just messing around with domains too much, could be that part is more strictly defined here compared to win

I can't access my router due to ISP policy. Some tools do allow connecting to the name.local format (Vinagre did for example, but that one has other bugs so I gave up on it) so I'm starting to think that's actually just a problem with Remmina, not a general Linux issue.

Not sure what you mean by the domain question, I do have a domain specified if i check the windows machine pc properties so I'm guessing I am actually in one?

Ok, I'll just default to flathub for app search instead, thanks.

Wish I wasn't already running into bugs with it though - I started installing vscode and logseq with flatpak, it opened them in Mint's Software Manager and there's a spinny thing now indicating work is being done, but when I click on it it just says "Currently working on the following packages" and then... nothing, blank screen. No idea if it's stuck or actually doing something in the background, but it's been a while (way longer than those would usually require to be installed).

Not a good first impression for sure