With this simple command I broke the os. sudo dnf clean all
I chose to encrypt during the install which I now perceive as a bad idea.
I did this command because Flameshot kept appearing on the screen even though it was not installed!
I also don’t know why you need 2 menus on the desktop and why the user sees this strange white bar at the top of the screen, what is it ? Yes it’s the menu but why is it not labeled?
After you install an app it refreshes twice, why? Takes a while for the app to appear in the menu. As much as I like this distro I find it to be a little strange. I also don’t know why the developers of ALL distros don’t look at other distros and borrow their excellent ideas.
Should we not all learn from each other?
Just a little rant and, suggestion and oberservation from a user who has used Linux for over 20 years and used many distros plus booted in live mode for hundreds.
hi @usfarang : do you want folks to help you debug the issue here? Otherwise I’ll close the topic—it serves no purpose. (Folks can read your initial post even if the topic is closed.)
Absolutely, as long as the knowledge transfer is on both sides
I am also an observer of long time Linux Distros. And yes, it changed a lot since Linux Torvalds created Linux. However “It has to be” is a quite restrictive expression in a opensource world where everyone with knowledge can make changes and define “how it has to be”.
The Gnome project since Version 3 showed us “how it can be”. The Developers of it had a clear vision how computing can look different and went that way. I also got “caught off guard” and refused to accept the new way. For me from the Windows world, the bottom left corner was reserved for a popup menu.
And now Gnome had the courage again, to remove this restriction of needing a corner menu.
Today the white bar just shows you where you are on the infinite “horizontally” workspace on which you can glide to the right and to the left.
Please try it, pressing the Crtl & Alt while using right >< left keys to move on the workspace. You might have to open a new app on every “clean screen” to understand fully the “white bar” on the top left side, which helps as an indicator to show the Work spaces you have open, and the once which are available with other open apps.
The other day you asked about the centered apps, for that, to see them always you can install the extension, dash to dock which gives you the ability to dock the most used apps and display them on the bottom.
This I wish you to. I also hope that you live FOSS / F(L)OSS while giving your opinion, and also accept others one.
There are several “simple commands” that can break the system. You can simply delete all your own files with a simple command. You could also pour a glass of water over the computer. So what would you suggest, to make an unbreakable machine? Not an easy task because that means an unusable machine also, like a solid cube of titanium.
I don’t see any “two menus”, I don’t have any “menu” on Gnome and I can’t imagine what the “white bar on top” is.
Fedora workstation does not refresh when you install an “app”, it does when you upgrade via Gnone Software. Which is not mandatory, you can use DNF, the same tool you use to break the system. I guess Gnome Software reboots because that is the safest way to apply upgrades.
I agree about distributions reinventing the wheel or the famous “not invented here” syndrome.
Last thing: Fedora is a a community that provides two "official - main” releases, one with Gnome (and GTK software) and the other with KDE Plasma (and QT software), plus several “spins” with other Desktop Environments and Windows Managers. Each has its own quirks that aren’t related to Fedora.
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