Hacker News Reader

Comment by tux1968 | Hacker News Reader

tux1968·

If you're moving to Fedora then Gnome really is the path of least resistance, and highest level of integration and support. But you can make KDE work, or even use a tiling WM like Sway and customize it to your taste. In any case, you get to enjoy the benefits of a really well done distro.

View on HN

> If you're moving to Fedora then Gnome really is the path of least resistance

Which is really the largest drawback by far that I've found. GNOME 4 is user-hostile garbage made by people who really really wish they were designing for tablets. It's practically useless without third-party extensions, which are of course unsupported. It doesn't even have a system tray FFS.

If Fedora Kinoite worked as well as Fedora Silverblue, I think I could be reasonably content. Immutable base system with Flatpak and Toolboxes is pretty close to how I actually want a system to work.

Alright. Will give it another go. Hopefully it’s easier to setup a side bar and top bar than last time I used it.

FWIW, I've used Fedora's KDE spin [1] and its very polished. That said, if I was still using linux on the desktop these days I'd go with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed[2]. With KDE my experience was that they made big improvements with every release, and tumbleweed was a nice way to get a stable-ish rolling release distribution that gets all the nice KDE updates without me having to wait another 6-8 months.

[1] https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/kde/

[2] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed

Reply on news.ycombinator.com