Gnome seems to still require you to install a browser extension to use Shell Extensions.

You can download the Extension Manager from Flathub. You don’t have to use a browser to install extensions at all.

KDE widgets are fantastic, I love having system monitors in a hidden panel at the top of my screen so I can really easily check system resource usage. I haven’t found anything similar on Gnome yet.

There are extensions for that in Gnome. I would mention “Vitals” or “Astra Monitor” if you want to go overkill.

Konsole by default switches tabs with ctrl tab but Terminal doesn’t and thats basically my only issue with it.

Default Gnome terminal is bad. Even Fedora which is a distro that ships almost every DE without any changes switched from the default Gnome terminal to Ptyxis. Ptyxis is probably still not enough for power users, but at least it has more settings including the ability edit keyboard shortcuts and looks better.

By default on KDE, if you shake your mouse the cursor gets bigger and there doesn’t seem to be a size limit which is so fun to do lol

There’s also an extension for that in Gnome although it probably does not have this funny “feature”.

I think my issue is related with how Acer’s UEFI handles efi files.

I know that this is not a Linux specific problem either, however I didn’t know where else to ask.

AFAIK on most distros and desktop environments the default file manager can read NTFS partitions without any further setup needed.

I dual boot Fedora with secure boot enabled for half a year already on my notebook with exactly 0 problems. Did few Windows updates already.

I don’t know what everybody sees in circle to search. Isn’t it just Google Lens which you can get on any other phone? I can make a screenshot and share ot with Google Lens to get the same result right?

I actually found Cinnamon to be more resource intensive than Gnome on most computers.

When excalidraw was mentioned in another comment I think it would also be worth to mention tldraw even though I don’t kniw whether it can be counted as an replacement since I never used draw.io.

https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw

Oh boy you’re gonna love YTDLnis https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis

The Xiaomi Android One line-up was unlockable without any hassle, but is long time discontinued. I used to use the Mi A2 lite as my main phone and you could just unlock it yourself offline. Only thing blocking you from doing it was the OEM unlocking toggle in developer settings. I still have the phone and it is running Android 14 like a charm.

RCS is an open standard, but Google’s implementation of it isn’t AFAIK. That’s why there exist no 3rd party RCS client outside of those praised by Google.

Change for the sake of change. At least it seems to be in a good direction.

they never worked very reliably in my experience.

It works perfectly on my phone (Poco X3 NFC). It is probably different from phone to phone.

On Android, from FDroid you can install an app called Seal

I like ytdlnis more.

Lawnchair 2 is no longer under development. The development team always starts to develop a new launcher based on the latest stock launcher every time a new Android version is released (so basically every year). This way the app usually never gets past the alpha or beta builds till they already move on to start from scratch. I don’t understand their strategy.

I use Google Lens and I also have to keep Google app installed. I agree it’s annoying that they just can’t make the apps work standalone. There already is a package that nearly all Google apps dependend on. The package is Google Play Services. Why can’t they implement this into Google Play Services as they do with all the other stuff (quick share, find my phone, location services etc…)?

I don’t understand. So if I only lock my phone (turn the screen off) without rebooting it, it is not fully encrypted (considering that the device storage encryption is enabled)?