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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't open everything at startup neither, and to be honest, I almost never use the dock neither. WIN + write the first letters is more efficient. That's why I love Gnome, you can use shortcuts for everything. It is clean, still extremely powerful. I used i3/sway for long, and then realized I could do everything the same in a much better polished desktop environment :) There's also extensions like "search light" if you don't want to have the menu full screen when searching (I used to use that, but I don't need it anymore).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aha, I see!

So, GNOME is more keyboard-intensive and is meant to be in many ways similar to a window manager, but with the perks of a full-fledged DE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly! You can use it as a WM or as click-click env!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks, this does provide some insight and also explains why managing many windows in one workspace is a pain in stock Gnome lol

although even then the app menu with a search option would be superior over whatever they have invented, but that's me grumbling