I guess I just don’t trust myself (or the system) to keep stuff organized unless I do it meticulously myself from the start in a neat hierarchy. I’ll try to use search more often since it does seem fast and sleek and see how it works out. The only annoying part about it is that it always defaults to my primary display for search even if im focused on the second monitor

Do you know of a good guide on how to use search better, like can I narrow so it only shows files and folders, or maybe match to a regex like *.js? it doesn’t really find specific files when i search for them, is it supposed to work with other mounted drives as well?

gnome-shell-pano looks great but is it abandoned? It says my current (newest i assume) gnome shell version is not supported by the extension. Does it open the paste window where your mouse focus is (and on the correct monitor if you have more than one)? CH always opens it on the main display even if i’m focused on the secondary, its horrible…

I found I already have an installed gnome extension ‘hot edge’ that is supposed to do dock opening when hitting the edge, although i do have issues with it sometimes not triggering, it seems very focus sensitive but it’s definitely better than nothing.

It’s definitely an interesting experience and I don’t want it to replicate windows, but i guess i need to come to terms with some design decisions that will feel unnatural after using windows for almost 20 years now.

It’s been a while since I used ubuntu and popOS was only for a few days so maybe I was just mistaken, I remember it being somewhat comparable to a classic desktop at the time but it could have been that cosmic shell thing. And tbh until so far I thought cinnamon is gnome so it seems like I was just outright wrong about that one, thanks for clarifying

I’m definitely willing to try bazzite’s gnome3 for a while, i just wasn’t sure what’s the default anymore and if it’s bazzite doing something out of the norm or if the ubuntu based distros did.

tl;dr KB+M and no touchpad here so that might have something to do with it, I prefer more compact and colorful UIs, and different behavior between LMB and RMB.

I’m not a big fan of the Nautilus file manager, all the rows seem too big and too padded. There is no compact mode and from what I’ve read changing the default file manager is a big no-no in linux since the OS depends on it (and I did try to install Dolphin just to compare but the theme was unusable with bazzite). I can’t even pin other drives to the left navigation pane, only folders? The monochromatic theme is neat but just makes it more difficult to tell things apart, gimme some color please yellow folders.

I know the no desktop decision is “since they always get cluttered anyways”, but making me use a folder instead will just force me to use a cluttered folder instead, or more likely keep stuff in Downloads. At least with the desktop I can visually arrange it.

I miss the taskbar for switching apps. I do agree pressing the win/command button is neat and practical but sometimes I just want to switch to a different app on my second monitor using mouse only (or see notifications from it) without moving my keyboard hand.

Then it’s the small things - I did install the clipboard manager gnome extension (because copyq doesn’t work with wayland apparently) but it always opens it in a corner, not on my mouse location.

Systray - left and right mouse buttons do the same thing and doubleclicking does nothing? For example to open the steam window from it I always have to click it, go down to library and click again, this is the default behavior of RMB in other OSes and here it’s the only behavior.

Minimizing something and then immediately alt-tabbing doesn’t bring that window back up, some focus issue? Two monitors issue? Dunno but annoying.

Is gnome 3 the one without a desktop? The only thing I can figure out with gnome-shell --version is that bazzite uses 46.4

There is a KDE variant of bazzite I might try but I dont know what can of worms is that going to open

How will manually retyping git pull or checkout 30+ times a day, or using the terminal log instead of a nice GUI with VSCode integration, teach me to solve other complicated issues? I just don’t really see the benefit of struggling for most of the time for something that might or might not happen later

When you need more advanced stuff then GUIs tend to become more of a sticking point I find

What’s stopping you just opening the terminal in those rare cases? For 99% of my daily needs I’m good with a good GUI

I’ll give it a try, thanks. Maybe I was just messing around with domains too much, could be that part is more strictly defined here compared to win

I can’t access my router due to ISP policy. Some tools do allow connecting to the name.local format (Vinagre did for example, but that one has other bugs so I gave up on it) so I’m starting to think that’s actually just a problem with Remmina, not a general Linux issue.

Not sure what you mean by the domain question, I do have a domain specified if i check the windows machine pc properties so I’m guessing I am actually in one?

Git Fork is absolutely amazing. It has a good (unlimited) free trial but it is well worth the one time purchase too.

I wonder what kind of support for development do you get? Honestly I’ve only had obstacles when I switched, for example the docker installation was much more complicated on linux than on windows+wsl. Even installing python was problematic because apparently ‘upgrading it yourself can brick the system’, at least if an older version comes with the OS?

And lastly it’s the simple thing that pretty much all tools work on windows natively but on linux you have to find workarounds, which is definitely a problem when it comes to productivity.

So what are the benefits, what does linux have that windows doesn’t in this context?

I dunno if I agree with this. Using windows and the office suite is taught in schools, at least in europe, and has been even when I was in school around 2 decades ago. Regardless of that, it is very user-friendly with intuitive simple UI and various wizards that guide you through every process step by step and generally speaking you dont have to do much, if any, manual configuration or tinkering if you dont want to.

I’m not saying linux should be the same and its obvious the priorities are different as you say, but I disagree that all OSes are about “detective work and figuring it out”. I dont think bashing your head against the wall is a good way of learning anymore. I dont think even asking questions every time on various forums is a good solution since there is no guarantee you will get a correct answer, especially with linux - chances are much higher in my experience you will get an opinionated and possibly wrong or outdated answer.

As mentioned in another post I’m more of a reading than video-watching person but I’ll take any resource I can get. I saw in another thread that someone recommended this video but it is 6 hours long so i haven’t really delved into it yet

Isn’t there a lot of overlap though, at least between OSes that are of the same type (like debian/ubuntu)? How to set up users, knowing that you need to manually configure automatic mounting of your drives, knowing how/when to use flatpak or apt or .deb, where to install apps… These are not really intuitive things, especially for someone coming from windows, and most “how to install linux” guides don’t really go into these in any meaningful way.

For instance at first I thought I could just keep a list of apt commands and make an “easy to reinstall” linux script at one time, and that lasted for whole of 10 minutes before I realized every app needs manual intervention in one or another way, or has a different way of installing. Also, as many people I just prefix everything with sudo to get it to install, but who knows if that is the correct thing to do? not me at least

I’ve only gone through the reddit thread and tbh most people seem to be bashing this method and pointing out flaws? It doesn’t seem like a magic bullet solution and dual boot seems like the better option, at least for now.

Yeah I’m the same way, there is a 6h video linked in your post but i can’t imagine myself actually going through it like that lol. I’m also in the process of trying to move data and media off my main PC but haven’t figured out the best way yet, I have an older laptop that I was considering setting up as a mini pc/home server but then there’s also the option of buying a NAS… it gets complicated and more expensive fast either way.

Can you elaborate? Googling linux vfio just gives me text heavy documents I dont understand. How does that replace dual booting and how would I use it?

Oh didn’t see that one, thanks! Of all the advice there did anything stick with you and help in the end?

But to truly master Linux, you need to understand its internals, like how the system boots, how networking works, and what the kernel actually does. In this third edition of the bestselling How Linux Works, author Brian Ward peels back the layers of this well-loved operating system to make Linux internals accessible.

Isn’t it too advanced? Seems like a good book but like the opposite of what I meant - I’m curious about beginner resources that will get people interested, knowledgeable and comfortable about using linux on a daily basis as much as they are with windows after decades of using it, not to turn them into a “superuser familiar with internals like kernel, networking, LVM”.

Well mocking a repository is pretty much the same process as mocking the dbcontext too, right? If that’s the only purpose then I can see why they would seem unnecessary

1. but if I do it on the repository layer I have to have a separate method for every possible filter combination, right? if i want to do it on the service layer i have to return an IQueryable which is also allegedly a bad practice (and i might as well return the entire dbset at that point)? also, should the repository be aware of my application (or even view) layer dto models?
2. this means the service has direct access to the database (dbcontext in this case)? or do you expose opening a transaction through some repository too?