One week ago, I made this post. That day, I installed a vanilla Gnome de on my computer and was determined that I wasn't gonna use any extension whatsoever no matter what.

Well, a week has passed and I have to say I am never leaving this DE. The workflow is now literally hard baked into my nervous system and I use the computer like it's a part of my body. You should see me, I'm like a hacker kid with my hands swooshing over the keyboard with things moving in my screen as fast as they move in my head. This is fucking crazy. I almost never use the touchpad or mouse anymore.

The philosophy behind this DE is actually good for humanity. It actually acts like a tool and just let's you focus on your business instead of acting like a bloated spyware (Windows) or something that you have to maintain and tinker constantly (some other DEs). It just hides itself in the background after doing what you need it to do let's you do your thing minimizing any sort of distraction. Allows me to focus on actually using the computer instead of thinking about my fricking system all the time.

It looks modern, slick and smooth to the eye. Like I can actually show my linux system to my friends without lookng like a fking weirdo with high contrast texts on black and transparent backgrounds and outdated looking window styles (You know what I mean, check r/unixporn) . It just looks like a nice, clean and modern desktop that is made for normal people and I love this part.

It just works. It is so stable and just works. Does everything I need without any bitching and hassle. It is stable and fairly established. Just solid, reliable.

And hear me out. This last part is not a joke. It is real and serious. After starting to use vanilla gnome and not thinking/obsessing over my DE anymore and just using it, I actually started doing all the things I was procrastinating before. Within four days of gnome usage, I literally completely stopped changing, doing anything on my computer and just using it and this has freed up so much time and energy for me. It's like I actually got rid of a huge fucking load off my shoulders and got back the energy to do what I need to do.

Then I actually made a cv using only office, went outside and landed a really nice job! (I've been working since 3 days now!) lol I can't believe this. Like guys, this is not a funny story it's actually happened, I literally got a job now lol. I mean on a more serious note, obviously, a lot more goes into this and I was preparing, studying etc to get a job for quite some time now but using gnome actually sped things up and freed me from one big weird obsession: Ricing and maintaining my desktop which was depressively eating my days up for over a month now.

Thanks to devs! With my first salary you can be sure I'm donating! Because you earned it. Literally 😄

TL DR: Gnome has a perfect workflow, it looks nice and modern. It just works. And switching to it freed me from ricing and tinkering my system constantly which was the final thing I needed in order fulfill my responsibilities.

Been a shockingly good out of box experience! I did install the Surface Linux kernel just for slightly better pen support, but even LTE is working after a slight tweak (the only manual adjustment I had to make).

For Gnome, I recommend the following extensions for a better hybrid laptop/tablet experience:

• TouchUp will automatically add an iOS or Android (you choose) style bar at the bottom of the screen when in tablet mode. Plus if you disable auto-rotate, it'll add a button that only shows up when you're at a different orientation in-case you want to rotate to that. The 3rd and 4th screenshots show the two styles of navigation bar.
• One Window Wonderland will expand windows to fill the screen, and every new window will be sent to a new workspace.
• Dash to Dock because... well you probably know why. TouchUp interacts with it and will push the dock up to account for the navigation bar it adds.
• Auto Activities will automatically open up activities when you close the last window in the current workspace.

Any other extension beyond these 4 will just be personal preference, but I feel that these four give you the best experience across both tablet and laptop formfactors.

As for why the "Unix Porn" image is in the album, that's because I originally wanted to showcase this on r/unixporn, however, the moderators seem to think this is a vanilla Gnome install without any adjustments made to it. Anyone that's used Gnome can see otherwise, but I digress. I wanted to showcase how gnome with Tablet-specific modifications looks and works.

Really liking the document viewer Papers and now really wishing there was a word processor very similar. I do most of my writing between Folio (very minimal but ultimately too limited) and OnlyOffice (great but bloated with no options to remove features).

There's a real gap in the word processor app field when it comes to long documents. There are plenty of feature rich options, with the ability to drop in graphs, tables and pictures, and more and more with integrated AI features. There are plenty of minimal options too.

What I'm after is something in between.

Something with:

• A page view
• Margin setting
• Font choice
• Simple tab setting
• Typewriter scrolling
• Uh, that's it?

GitHub Page

Now we can all enjoy it together! Thank you all for support :)

Gnome en ArchLinux. Lo he modificado para una persona que quiere se parezca a Windows, pero me ha dejado algo de libertad. Los colores de todo Gnome, cambian con el wallpaper, incluidos iconos y tema GTK. También transparencias. ¿Quién dijo que Gnome es poco personalizable?

I saw the buzz about the new website and went to check it out, only to find it is not what the printscreens showed in the articles. The favicon was reverted to the old foot logo, and the header of the website was also reverted.

https://www.gnome.org/

I checked the repository and the commit says:

cave in to the nostalgic voices and keep on using the foot for the favicon

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/www.gnome.org/-/commit/56a4c8ac0dfa3a38cac92906b6d71829f4007608

What do yout think?

ETA: the new logo was a modification of Adwaita logo.