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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by shapis@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I gave it a fair shot for about a year, using vanilla GNOME with no extensions. While I eventually became somewhat proficient, it's just not good.

Switching between a few workspaces looks cool, but once you have 10+ programs open, it becomes an unmanageable hell that requires memorizing which workspace each application is in and which hotkey you have each application set to.

How is this better than simply having icons on the taskbar? By the way, the taskbar still exists in GNOME! It's just empty and seems to take up space at the top for no apparent reason other than displaying the time.

Did I do something wrong? Is it meant for you to only ever have a couple applications open?

I'd love to hear from people that use it and thrive in it.

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[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope, not even a little bit. That's why I use Cinnamon. On the workspace front, though, I do use those heavily. It helps to have dedicated workspaces. On my home setup I have a sidedesk for Obsidian and PDF reading; a hobby bench for tinkering with linux, my network, and coding; a main for webrowsing and general info gathering; one for gaming (steam and lutris live there); and one for communications like discord, signal, matrix, etc.

[-] Nihil@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Cinnamon here too. I haven’t tried them all, but it’s support for fractional scaling is the best I can find.

[-] z2k_@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

If only Cinnamon would add wayland support

[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm definitely waiting on that

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