Cyno

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?

Ok, I'll just default to flathub for app search instead, thanks.

Wish I wasn't already running into bugs with it though - I started installing vscode and logseq with flatpak, it opened them in Mint's Software Manager and there's a spinny thing now indicating work is being done, but when I click on it it just says "Currently working on the following packages" and then... nothing, blank screen. No idea if it's stuck or actually doing something in the background, but it's been a while (way longer than those would usually require to be installed).

Not a good first impression for sure

So what do I do if I want to install VSCode? The official installation guide on their website says to download the deb file, why is such a big and popular tool not in the repository right away? Or better yet, if this is the officially endorsed why how are we to figure out the proper alternative?

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?

Thank you very much for such a detailed answer! This is exactly the type of stuff I wanted to learn in advance from some generalist tutorial because honestly, I feel bad constantly asking such basic questions and there's no guarantee there will always be someone like you to answer them. In retrospect it's probably the smarter and simpler option to just google the command docs online, I just wanted to do it "right" since I heard all the praise about man command and you never know if you're working offline.

I'll check out nala, could be a good learning tool, thanks!

That gives me a list of over 2000 rows inside of the terminal that i cant apparently search or sort -.-

Then I tried to be smart and do man dpkg -l to see if that has any options on how to use it better, and instead i got another huge text file that i cant search or navigate through properly

So then i googled how to open it in an editor and tried man dpkg -l | nano, which does open it for a second and then crashes, i just get "too many errors from stdin, buffer written to nano.12608.save" in the terminal

ofc something as simple as map dpkg -l | vscode doesnt work either

I'm just tired