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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At first I hated the new Gnome but now that I took a deep dive into Extensions I now have my perfect little Mac clone with Arch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to have a bunch of cool little extensions (and a few big ones, like dash to dock), but upgrading to a new version is always a removed. Plugins stop working and then a process starts where you're looking for updates if or when they'll be updated, if alternatives exists, etc. The system never feels the same to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. I personally like the approach of having a pretty decent system by default and then install extensions for customizing it, rather than having a bloat load of options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

absolutely, i use Dash to Dock, Just Perfection, Hide Top Bar, Gesture Improvements, Awesome Tiles and Battery Indicator Icon to make it just how I want it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also introduces an improved Epiphany (GNOME Web) web browse

Did you try it guys ? Is it better than FF or Brave ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For me, it's not really to the point where I would use it as a primary browser, but it's still pretty damn good. Definitely worth a try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still waiting for proper fractional scaling in wayland that won't turn the screen into a blurry mess. I'm using gnome tweaks' font size setting as a workaround for now, but it's not ideal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shouldn't be blurry if you run Wayland supported apps. For me only Jetbrains products are blurry since they use Java which doesn't support fractional scaling.

I assume you enabled experimental fractional scaling in gnome?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'll try again to see if the blur only happen on certain apps or all of them.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What did they remove this time?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sarcasm: You can no longer see your running applications. But fear not, they plan to give you a menu of running applications in the next release so you can close them if they ever get minimized.

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