KDE and Gnome?

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Wow, thanks so much for that. I learned a lot here.
Ok, so Atomic basically gives me the ‘roll back’ functionality. That makes sense and I see the attraction. I am running Fedora 40 on a 2011 iMac here, works pretty good for the most part, it’s my temp machine while I found a laptop (about to set it up, hence this thread.

On this imac, I recently upgraded from F39WS to F40WS. It broke Pano clipboard manager, which I rely on heavily. I was advised on here that’s no mean feat to get back to F30, but someone mentioned it would have been possible if I was running an ‘Atomic’ version. I now understand why!

Whilst I am very attracted to that idea, there are two possible problems I foresee:

  1. Learning curve, I have little time to learn much, and Fedora/Gnome has been a massive learning process for past few months, I suspect Atomic will be another learning process I will struggle with, if only for time.

  2. This containerization stuff is no doubt great for security/privacy, but I suspect it could cause me headaches. I have learned about the sandboxing features of flatpaks, which again attracted me, but I then had big problems with Thunderbird and Brave (my two most used apps). Thunderbird couldnt ‘see’ my system’s default apps, so couldn’t open files from emails easily. In Brave I use BItwarden extension, and it would never lock the vault as per my settings (30 mins after system lock), because (I deduced) it didn’t know what the system locked! (Again due to containerization of flatpaks). I had to uninstall both, without losing MASSIVE amounts of data (email mainly, 20 yrs worth) and reinstall via RPM instead. I fear I may have simliar headaches with Atomic’s increased security/containerization. Is that a reasonable fear?

PS - I have just tried playing with KDE from a live USB. Some GREAT stuff in there, and if I hadn’t spent the past few months on Gnome, I probably would have chosen it. But now it feels alien enough that I may just have to settle for Gnome (just for now while I have so little spare time). Shame, I LOVE having my desktop back! and I love many other things, but it is very complex and I think I’d need a week just to play with all the settings/options. I am sure one day soon I will want those to play with, and will hopefully have the time!

Thanks again for such a generous and useful post