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After spending most of a decade in i3wm, I decided to give Gnome a try again. The most debilitating issue that I kept running into over and over again was exte
by hannofcart 3y ago
After spending most of a decade in i3wm, I decided to give Gnome a try again.
The most debilitating issue that I kept running into over and over again was extension memory leak.
After a restart and within a week, gnome shell process would end up using 10GB. And all guides on how to debug this seem to say: turn off extensions one at a time to see what's leaking.
Speaking to others I realised that I'm not the only one facing this.
I just threw in the towel and switched to KDE. It has been smooth sailing since.
Gnome shell desperately needs a resource monitor for extensions IMO.
- iknowstuff 3y agoI wonder what percentage of users uses extensions other than distro defaults
- pmarreck 3y agoI use a bunch thanks to NixOS' ease of installing them, such as the one that previews a file by hitting spacebar (which is a knock-off of the same functionality in MacOS).
- pjmlp 3y agoGiven that GNOME has quite a few stuff that they shift into extensions, even distro defaults make use of them.
- unethical_ban 3y agoGNOME Tweaks has a lot of settings options that should be in the default software.