OS: OpenSuse Tumbleweed with KDE. Icon Theme: Reversal

I used the Latte Dock before but since it didn’t play nice with Wayland and is basically unmaintained now, I simply transformed a KDE Panel into a Dock. I use a KWin Script called “Panel Auto Hide” to make the Dock disappear when window hits it.

  • @[email protected]
    9•1 year ago

    How’s Tumbleweed treating ya? I find that when it comes to rolling release I’m very much comfy with the Arch-based distros.

    Liking the layout as well, I honestly might look at this or something similar. IDK, the old Windows-style layout is getting kinda boring, want to spice up my workflow a bit.

    • dnzm
      8•1 year ago

      Not OP, but I’ve been running TW for… 5-ush years now, I think, and it’s been great. Even when I still had Nvidia hardware and sometimes ran into a kernel being too new or whatever it was that made the Nvidia driver shit the bed: roll back to the previous snapshot, wait for a couple of days. Apart from that it’s been pretty much rock solid.

      The only thing I might switch to, is Kalpa.

    • Spunky Monkey
      4•1 year ago

      I recently changed from EndeavourOS to Tumbleweed and I couldn’t be happier. Very fast and stable.

      It comes with more, lets say, “bloat” than an normal Arch-based distro, but nothing that you can’t remove if you feel like it.

      If you use KDE, it has one of the best integrations in my view. You can use zapper (tumbleweed version of pacman), and even though you loose AUR packages you have OBS (OpenSUSE Build Service).

      There is very good documentation for it also, but nothing beats Arch wiki.

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•1 year ago

      So far it’s good and stable. But to be fair I only have it installed for about 3 weeks. Before that, I played with it in a virtual machine for a month. I decided to test it because I wanted a KDE focused Distro and OpenSuse was recommended to me. Watched this review and gave it a try. Quite happy so far but I may switch to Vanilla OS, should it get a KDE version. I ended up preferring Flatpaks anyway and a Distro that doesn’t allow me to accidentally bork my system, sounds good to my causal ears 😉.

    • @kennocha
      3•1 year ago

      I gave it a go today but not all hardware on my laptop would work. It doesn’t work in Fedora either without RPM Fusion though.

      I couldn’t find any way to get IPU6 firmware for webcam to work nor any opensuse stuff for it. Kind of surprising they don’t support it since most every laptop is starting to ship with em.

      Ubuntu and Fedora both are pretty painless to get it to work.

        • @kennocha
          1•1 year ago

          Unfortunately no, it’s not in there either. I couldn’t even find people talking about it on the forums. It’s honestly a bit odd.

          The XPS13 is a super popular Linux box.

  • @[email protected]
    6•1 year ago

    Welcome to Linux, the Fediverse, and FOSS communities! Never be afraid to ask for help. We were all newbies once.

    • @Falmarri
      3•1 year ago

      Do people actually prefer this mac style desktop? You can’t even tell what windows are open, how many of them, etc, when they’re all grouped together like this.

      • @[email protected]OP
        3•1 year ago

        I usually have all windows over 2 - 3 workplaces placed. You can see which windows are open in the dock with the bars to the right from the symbol icons and I use mostly alt + tab to circle between the 3 - 4 windows per workplace. And should I really need a view of all open windows, I can move the mouse to the top right corner and activate the overview 😉

        Works for me.