Linux

Original question by @POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com

Hi, Long time Mac user here, recently switching my personal devices to Linux. My work unfortunately does not support this, mandating work be done on the provisioned device and it has to be Mac or Windows. So, I'm finding it a bit hard to get up to speed when coding on Linux. I've tried GNOME, KDE, Hyprland and find no obvious heaven in any of them. I have two external 27" monitors fwiw. My personal PC has Arch and KDE for gaming reasons, but I'm also looking to code more on open source tools to avoid personal vendor lock-ins.

I'm very new on Linux and i'm trying to get some help.

Have any of you run Dolphin standalone with ES-DE? Eventually I'll add PCSX2 standalone, something else for N64 and Dreamcast, etc.

We all know how common terminal one liners have became as a installation method on GNU/Linux and what are the issues with it but let's recap quickly.

I dug out my old Asus Zenbook (UX305CA) and refurbished it: gave it a good cleaning, replaced the thermal paste, installed a new battery, upgraded the SSD, and did a clean install of Ubuntu 24.04 (don't judge; everything else in my house is still Debian and/or OpenWRT).

So I've been using it for a week or so, tried some other distros on the side, also tried some very dangerous things like rebasing from KDE to Gnome. I'll present my impressions as lists of good and bad things. Also keep in mind I've been mostly using Gnome in the past, so some of this feedback might be more about KDE / Plasma 6 in general, rather than Bazzite itself.