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[-] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 18 hours ago

See, you make it sound very good, but then lots of other people talking about it say it's a nightmare to use and you need to find and install extensions for the smallest tweaks, so I'm hesitant to try it. Although "no effort to resemble The Bad OS" is a good selling point.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

They think it's a nightmare to use because they want it to resemble The Bad OS.

Finding and installing extensions consists of going to https://extensions.gnome.org/ searching for what you want, then clicking once to install and once to confirm. No account required, just as easy as using your package manager.

The extensions I have installed right now are:

  • AppIndicator and KstatusNotifierItem Support which lets programs put a little indicator that they're running in the background in the top right statusbar

  • Dash to Dock which makes the launcher dock thing show up when I mouse over the bottom of the screen instead of just showing up when I hit the Super key (what we Linux nerds call the key with the windows flag)

  • GSConnect which is the GNOME version of KDE Connect, it lets me get phone notifications on my desktop and text from my desktop, and use my phone as a wireless mouse and keyboard, and transfer files between the two

  • Compiz windows effect which gives me the classic Compiz wobbly windows effect

  • Desktop cube which gives me the classic Compiz desktop cube effect

The last two of which I found and installed because of this here conversation.

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