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agreed Fedora is spectacular. Rock solid. Everything works. It has all the components tightly integrated.

>Nvidia’s proprietary driver now includes massively enhanced support for Wayland thanks to tight collaboration between the Fedora, Red Hat, and Nvidia teams.

No surprises there - Fedora sponsors most of the devs for the kernel as well as components like PipeWire, etc

Gnome is beautiful. I have had people carrying Macs ask me what OS im running - on my cool looking carbon fiber white Lenovo Yoga.

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>> Gnome is beautiful.

I've been using Fedora since 2005 and the one thing I don't like is the gnome desktop. I run a 55" 4K screen and spread out my windows like work on a real desktop. If I want to start something I have to move the mouse 5 miles to the upper-left corner (where there is no visible cue) to get the launcher-bar to appear. And then the bad appears, but all my windows magically rearrange and shrink, and the launcher now appears at the bottom of the screen, so I have to move my mouse 7 miles down to start something. I'd love to have the launcher ever-present and optionally on the left, right or bottom. But as people say, the gnome developers "know what's best for people" and do it how they see fit.

Most everything else about gnome is OK, and Fedora in general is great IMHO.

You can get the launcher/overview by pressing the Win key, no need to touch the mouse.

I don't want the overview. I know someone spent a lot of time on it and is probably proud (as they should be) of their dynamic ordering of the windows so you can see them all, but I don't want that view. Also, like I said I want the launcher available all the time - I've got tons of space for it and don't want to have an extra step to get it. I also don't have a Win key - maybe it's disguised.

But I have never ever did this use case. I generally do Super + typing the program I want, or some version of the above.

You can install an extension (i.e. dash to dock) to make the launcher ever-present on whichever side of the screen you want. The main downside is that the extensions always break on GNOME upgrades and take a little while to get fixed.

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