I have been using Linux for about 5 years and although I don’t consider that I know much, I know enough to fix my own problems and that’s usually enough for me.

Since Plasma 6 was announced I wanted to test something other than XFCE, Gnome or Plasma (or any DE) so I give it a try with ArcoLinuxD i3wm and is increible the amount of things I learn the ‘hard way’ because there was no GUI to do the things I want to do, or maybe I was too lazy to do it with the terminal since there is always the ‘easy way’.

Things that might be very easy for a lot of people, but I never take the time to learn, like mounting drives, running programs from startup, setting environment variables, creating desktop entries, and a lot of other things I didn’t even remember. I even learned to use things that used to give me a headache just looking at it, like Vim, xdg, the Archwiki (that is super useful) and the manpages.

It’s ironic because something that started as an experiment is now my daily drive, and now that Plasma 6 has been released, I don’t want to leave i3 behind.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    The discover store comes with KDE nowadays. GNOME has a similar store.

    Yes that’s the store I was referring to that doesn’t work. Installed different distros on different devices and Gnome Software never works.

    Ubuntu has a similar snap store, I think.

    Yes and that has already caused problem and Valve specifically recommends NOT installing it, but you won’t find that in the store.

    Dunno what your package manager problem is.

    I just told you exactly what it is.

    They’re basically like an exe on windows.

    LOL they’re absolutely nothing like that.

    I’d rather manually add my rare appimage to the menu than go through the installer hell windows has.

    Jesus, really? You mean the one that works exactly the same every time? The one where you go to the website, download the .exe, double click and it installs itself?