This is my Gnome desktop right now. Nothing too fancy, just the usual Gnome 49 with extensions (Blur my shell, AutoAccentColour, System Monitor, etc.), a Win11 inspired background and two apps running (Vivaldi browser playing a Youtube video and Kew music player in a terminal).

I play around with configs and add-ons from time to time but i ALWAYS move back to this Gnome designed desktop and it fits my needs.

  • erebion@news.erebion.eu
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    2 months ago

    I really like GNOME, but I’m so used to my Sway/i3 keybindings I’ve been using for nine years without any change… I just cannot switch. I’d also miss tiling.

    Meanwhile, the two things I dislike with Sway:

    • the way window borders look
    • nm-applet can’t be clicked to open a list of wifis, so I rely on nmtui (although it works on i3)

    But I use a lot of GNOME software, especially on my phone. :D

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    2 months ago

    The best thing about Gnome: It’s one of hundreds of choices.

    I love XFCE personally, but everyone has multiple choices to pick the one they like most.

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Would you recommend Vivalvi? I’m looking for a browser that doesn’t consume to many resources, but I think that I’m asking too much nowadays.

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      2 months ago

      Vivaldi is a beast when it comes to handling memory. It has features that I’ve never found in other browsers eg. workspaces (similar to tab grouping extensions like sideberry in Firefox) . It still supports ublock. It can sync.

      It is degoogled.

      I use it on all my machines and android devices.

      Another chromium based browser that I would HIGHLY recommended is Cromite - a fork of bromite. It is also recommended by the graphene OS team.

      It’s chrome, without google. Plus a ton of security and privacy additions and options. It doesn’t have any added productivity or other features besides those.

      It doesn’t have a sync feature, but exporting is a thing.

      It is great with memory, too.

      PS. I don’t have a computer or phone with more than 8GB ram.

      (Don’t worry guys, I also use my own user.js in ff, use tor, mullvad browser, etc.)