1) Gnome 3.18 is pretty great, and totally turns around my bad impression of Linux desktop environments, 2/
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2) Fedora is pretty much GnomeOS, so if you want a first-class experience with latest-Gnome, you want Fedora, 3/
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3) but Fedora is pretty religious about not shipping nonfree stuff, and Korora pretty much exists to remedy that problem, 4/
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@kororaproject feels like the right answer. It gives a quite good experience and no obvious gotchas even with some use 5/5 -
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@seanghagstrom@elementary it looks nice but somewhat behind and has the same arch issues. -
@wycats I may have missed some tweets, but what do you mean by arch issues? Like package repos? -
@seanghagstrom arch Linux doesn't play nice with VMware or parallels. Lots of manual work and I could never get a reliable flow. - 1 more reply
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@wycats Hey Yehuda, have you considered using XMonad, embedded in GNOME, w/ suckless? You get tiled windows w/ all the good bits of GNOME -
@levindaniel42 is there a good turnkey solution? I stayed away from Linux for a long time because I don't have time to mess with my env -
@wycats No turnkey solution, but installation is brief. XMonad has a steep learning curve. But, IMHO, like Vim, its ROI is enourmous. -
@wycats http://vishwathmohan.com/xmonad-on-ubuntu.html … As close as you can get to turnkey. Will probably take a few minutes. I cry on dual monitors wo/ xmonad now.
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