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Gnome41 on Debian Bookworm is my current setup and am actually typing this comment from there. I use it about once a week and as far as I can tell, Gnome40+ is
by apatheticonion 5y ago
Gnome41 on Debian Bookworm is my current setup and am actually typing this comment from there.
I use it about once a week and as far as I can tell, Gnome40+ is giving off signs that I might be able to use it as a daily driver (for work).
Looking forward to the updated Files application and whatever else is coming in G42.
That said, there are a lot of design choices that cater more to mobile form factors and the desktop experience suffers as a result.
Then there are non DE related issues like application installation. Chromium has bizarre window and mouse performance issues related to Wayland. Graphics card drivers are difficult to install, even as someone who knows how to read documentation. Flatpak has a permissions structure that doesn't always make sense for certain applications (like OBS, Discord, IDEs) and installing applications using a package manager is very hit and miss (e.g. OBS is broken in Debian Bookworm when installed via apt because of a qt5 dependency)
I don't mean to sound negative - I only complain because I love Linux and want to be able to go to my friends and colleagues and say "you can use this" - feeling confident that they will have an experience on par with MacOS.
- moojacob 5y agoThat Chrome bug seems frustrating... have you tried changing chrome to use Wayland instead of XWayland? Go to chrome://flags and change Preferred Ozone platform from X11 to Wayland.
- apatheticonion 5y agoThanks, yes I actually raised a bug with the issue Chromium issue tracker. I have set Wayland as the default and the resizing issues have settled. There currently isn't a fix for the scroll being slower than other system windows and there also isn't a fix for issues with dragging tabs. Middle click doesn't work but I think that's system wide
- pxc 5y ago> Middle click doesn't work but I think that's system wide At all? Applications don't receive middle click events?