My way of doing things is probably built on top of having a not very great memory and focus issues, so its actually difficult for me to operate without visual knowledge of an app being open still. That is also one reason it took me so long to make the switch to linux in the first place, GUIs are just so much easier than memorizing commands for me. More of a pattern learner than memorizing words or commands.

From my experience KDE barely has extensions, it mostly has half baked themes. Gnome extensions are in a whole different league

Yeah that is still a while away though. Gnome is pushing it now

It does certainly help, just not great.

And yes gnome does, because it is built around an extension ecosystem. You can’t multi monitor their default dash, but you certainly can use the dash to panel extension just fine on multiple monitors. Due to extensions, gnome is just way more customizable

Yeah im originally a windows boy lol. I grew up with it, and now I just cannot stand not being able to see everything on all monitors. It’s one of the major reasons I haven’t been able to get used to virtual workspaces / virtual desktops. Something about a window being hidden off into the void until I switch over to it just doesn’t work for me

My issue is when editing a panel there is no way to sync that change to all your other panels. I have five monitors and any new change (pin new app, hide something from tray, appearance change, trying new menu theme) needs to be manually done to every other panel too. It’s alot of effort when you don’t even know if you like the change yet.

That is my gripe haha. I don’t want independent bars, I have five monitors and every little change has to be done four more times and it’s infuriating lol. I want to be able to sync them like I can with dash to panel on gnome, but KDE handles it in such an odd way that it’s even hard to script cloning the task bar changes to other monitors.

The way gnome is built around extensions makes it very likely that if you have a pain point, someone smart enough to make an extension to fix it probably did too. I was able to make a very comfortable experience with it.

I also really miss ArcMenu :( I tried so many KDE menu themes and they are just so janky

Im curious what makes you say this?

I switched to KDE a couple months ago after updating to ubuntu 25.10 and finding out gnome is forcing wayland going forward, but most of my daily used applications dont work on wayland at all. KDE will atleast still support X11 for another couple years.

I really wish I could go back to gnome as I just really don’t like how little KDE has thought about multi monitors with its bottom panels/task managers.

I know how this sounds with where we are currently… but reddit’s /r/usenet has alot of good guides and round ups. That’s what I used back in the day, before the exodus that brought me here a couple years ago

Yes, quite a lot do. It is just a faster, more secure, and more reliable experience compared to torrenting

And that’s not even mentioning usenet… Paying for piracy in many cases can just be overall better

This is what i did for a good while to have cheap vlan capable switching in a couple of rooms that only had one cable running there.