I remember one time I installed a lot of themes for my session and I broke something and the themes changed my icon files forever and I had to reinstall Ubuntu!!

Should I just stick to changing my wallpaper and other small tweaks? I don’t really like using vanilla Ubuntu anymore, it doesn’t feel like me. Thank you very much!!

  • nottheengineer@feddit.de
    187·
    11 months ago

    Use something other than gnome and, while you’re at it, you might as well use something other than ubuntu.

    KDE is very hard to break, you can go wild with customization there.

    • ffhein@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      I also use KDE because I like customizing my DE, but I’m not sure I agree that it’s hard to break. When I just switched from Xfce to KDE I downloaded several global themes using the built-it theme browser, and a few of those definitely messed things up. It’s also happened more than once that I boot my computer and end up with only the desktop background (i.e. no panels or context menu) because KDE thought there was some wrong with the theme, which can be difficult to recover from for someone who doesn’t know how to ctrl-alt-F3 and edit settings manually. Though it’s ofc. more stable when not testing global themes, and only changing other appearance settings.

    • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I’ve been using gnome for the past year on my laptop and on my desktop I’ve been using kde. I haven’t used my desktop in a few months and I missed kde. I moved from silverblue to fedora kinoite on my laptop and I don’t think that it’s been two weeks but today I went back to gnome because the overview is much more polished than kde’s. It just works. Gnome always breaks extensions when they update a major version but I’ve seen so many “extensions” on kde now which are all not updated anymore and break stuff that I might actually think that gnome’s way is kind of good. Maybe it was just the fedora version which lead to so many bugs but the experience I had in the past week wasn’t so good.

    • 01adrianrdgz@lemmy.worldOP
      66·
      11 months ago

      but other distributions are complex to install and besides, Ubuntu works out of the box on my laptop!! But thank you so much, I once tried KDE but Plasma felt very hard to understand.

        • 01adrianrdgz@lemmy.worldOP
          23·
          11 months ago

          why do some people heavily dislike Snaps?? I don’t see them when I install software, and it doesn’t make Ubuntu slow.

          • nottheengineer@feddit.de
            41·
            11 months ago

            Copied from another comment I wrote about that:

            Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that’s easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.

            Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn’t about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.

            But what does canonical think should happen when you run sudo apt install firefox and press Y? That’s right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.

            Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole

              • nottheengineer@feddit.de
                11·
                11 months ago

                Maybe they fixed that part, but that isn’t a good thing. Now you can’t feel whether something is installed as snap and will probably run into snap issues without a clue what could be causing them.

                • Patch@feddit.uk
                  21·
                  11 months ago

                  Oh, come on. You’re saying that it’s a problem that snaps don’t have immediately obvious performance problems or bugs?

                  Let’s not get silly about these things…

      • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        5·
        11 months ago

        I disagree eight the other poster. Please use whatever distribution you feel most comfortable with!
        With KDE Plasma you might want to wait for the upcoming 6 release, since they simplified a lot of stuff (and also Wayland per default iirc?). Kubuntu will take longer than Feodora to ship though.
        I personally used Plasma a lot, and I understand the being overwhelmed. What I did was just working with it, and figuring stuff out along the way. I think KDE Plasma is awesome, especially for customization!

      • RmDebArc_5@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        Use what distro you like, but most distros are very easy to install (some even easier than Ubuntu I would argue). KDE Neon would be a good starting point in that regard. What exactly is hard to understand about Plasma? I have heard this sometimes now but I really don’t get it, I find it to be very easy to understand as it integrates for example theming