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Enjoy the ride! :)

Oh! You might find this useful. It’s a list of various setting changes/fixes I made after switching and encountering various issues, or annoyances. Some of these were under Kubuntu, most are under Garuda, but I don’t think anything in there is distro-specific, so it should work on both Debian-based and Arch-based.

If you’ve never installed Linux before, I would start with something user-friendly, like Kubuntu or Bazzite. Both come with KDE as their main Desktop Environment (“DE”), so you could do what OP did looks-wise.

If you’re a technical user, and don’t hate having to sometimes do things manually, try Garuda Linux - it’s Arch-based, but catered very towards Linux newbies and does a lot of hand-holding. I use it and I enjoy it very much.

To specifically do what OP did with his DE - KDE comes with the concept of Panels and Widgets. The top bar you see in the screenshot is a Panel. On it, there are (from right to left) the System Tray widget, a Spacer widget, a Digital Clock widget with customised display format (something you can do in the settings of the widget), another Spacer, an Icons-Only Task Manager widget (displays active applications and lets you pin applications - like the Taskbar in Windows or Dock in macOS), and finally the Application Launcher widget (the Start menu equivalent). Everything is pretty heavily customised (presumably with Panel Colorizer? Not sure), so that - out of the box - even with this exact setup copied, yours would look slightly different.

It has very nearly got a majority several times. I’m sure that with some media manipulation (eg milking an incident) it will be easily pushed through.

“Several times”? There were two votes to date.

The only “majority” we’ve been hearing about were the “these governments support this idea” maps, which have minimal bearing on how the EU Parliament actually votes.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

Wouldn’t an immutable OS be overall a pretty good idea for a stable server?

Then configure vim using emacs

I still consider myself to be primarily a Windows user (I can actually properly troubleshoot stuff there), but I have dabbed in Linux many times over the years. I’m using Garuda for about a year now and I’m super happy with it.

As for other distros - I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Tuxedo OS (basically re-branded Kubuntu, specialised for Tuxedo Computers), Fedora, PopOS, and probably a bunch of others I’m forgetting.

Garuda gave me the most “just works out of the box” experience to date.

Don’t get me wrong - there was still a bunch of things I had to do to get the experience I truly liked, but it gave me the fewest and the least annoying surprises so far.

As for things it lacks - if you get the “Dragonized” edition, you end up with a fairly heavy KDE, and some… questionable default theme choices. I’m running the Garuda Mokka, and I think it just looks super pretty out of the box. I disabled a couple of Window Decorations, but even out of the box it wasn’t anything super over the top. You can also always switch to one of the classic KDE themes, like Breeze.

This was my first foray into Arch, so I can’t tell you if it “breaks” anything someone experienced with Arch would be annoyed about.

Fair enough.

I used it on a secondary laptop for a while. I agree that it looks promising, their “Spotlight” equivalent is great, much better than KDE’s default.

TBF, I think the majority of “people who play games” play them on their phones these days, and PC gaming is not that big of a percentage.

what’s the benefit of using a “gaming” distro

User of Garuda Linux here.

The distro comes with an installer that asked me if I want to install Lutris, Steam, Heroic Games Launcher and the AMD drivers. Asked me about my browser preferences, including Vivaldi, which I actually use. It also took care of installing Wine and Proton GE for me, I just had to select them from a list.

It also includes a Garuda Toolbox application which is a general “I don’t understand Arch but need to do maintenance” kind of software. You hop in, drop tasks into a queue (things like checking for updates, clearing orphans, merging .pacnew, etc., etc.), and then it handles executing them all in the appropriate order after just a single root password prompt.

What’s wrong with Popos?

OOTL. What happened with Ladybird?

Did you stop reading his comment after that sentence?

Random? 17 years ago?

What’s the issue here?

So, you just decided to say “KDE: we hate Unix” for no reason whatsoever, because it has no relation to the OP at all?

Please keep at it! I’ve been looking for a while and I’m shocked how difficult such a seemingly simple thing is to get on Linux…

Is it weird to explain the reason why something is as it is? If you were already aware of it then it shouldn’t be as baffling.

Imagine this conversation:

OP: Hi guys, I’m looking for yellow tomatoes, do you know where can I get them?

You: Well, tomatoes are usually red because of [valid biological reason].

You see how weird that is?

There are also modern terminals and shells that do things the way you expect in a more convenient way, but maybe you also know this

Clearly, neither me nor the OP know this. If that wasn’t the case, I would’ve provided OP with an answer to the question they posted!

OP mentioned powershell, he just use that (pwsh) in Linux

PowerShell still runs inside a terminal emulator (e.g. Fish), so it changes nothing in the input/output behaviour.

personally I haven’t tried the more GUI-friendly terminals

“GUI-friendly terminals”? What does that mean, in the context of the conversation?

Why are you talking about GUI?

What did you use before?

And if it’s KDE, could you do a quick comparison between the two? What features make you want to switch?

The CMD “terminal” in Windows, for instance, don’t behave anywhere close to the rest of the system with regard to cp/paste

Do I need to record a screencap from conhost.exe for you to believe me when I say you’re wrong?

tab completion, etc.

Where did that come from? I never said anything about tab completion or “etc”. I was talking specifically about Ctrl/Shift combinations with arrows/backspace/home/end, and such.

Terminals are used for more than installing packages and editing files. If I login to the old solaris boxes at work via serial console and all the key bindings are fucked, I’m not getting the job done. I and most of my contemporaries rely on the way VT 100 terminal emulators work, which is why we can’t use kitty, alacrity, etc.

Did you even read what I wrote? I said that there should be an option to switch between “modern” and “classic” keybinds. With the default being set to “classic” everywhere, how exactly would that cause any problems for you?

If you want that “consistency”, use one of those terminal emulators that allows these behaviours.

Mate, are you high? That’s what the OP is asking for. Do you know any such terminal emulators? Post some names!

The thing is that vi and emacs have existed since long before those other new editors came around.

What a weird thing to say… So what that they existed before? Who cares?

Ctrl/Shift modifiers work in a very consistent way in the entirety of Windows, most of Mac, and… everywhere in Linux except the terminal.

It boggles my mind that there isn’t a simple switch to toggle between “classic” and “modern” style for keybinds.

Your comment reads extremely weird, considering both Mac and Windows handle this with zero issues.

It’s super simple: if you’re in Select mode (any text is selected), Ctrl+C copies. In any other case, Ctrl-C is the cancel command.