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I prefer cachyos, also cachyos lets me use gparted and like a whole de gui for install off the usb, it was comfortable and easier than windows, bazzite was still a terminal. Felt less “scary” swapping over.

Why would it need to be easier? It works great has high performance? It just happens to be a gnome extension rather than a general linux app, is that what you mean, like use it outside gnome?

popout sticky note in the panel was hella useful tho, have tasks instead for gnome but its not the same

By itself sure but why would you be in a situation where you cant use extensions, dashtopanel, arcmenu, window thumbnails (pip) make gnome solid, finally commited to one de for now, theyd need to add window thumbnails at least for me to swap back

pip is an easily resizable overlay, sure you can set window always to front but then you can accidentally click it , like easily drag it around the screen away from whatever I need to see and use to an area thats currently unused, quick resize if I need to see it bigger, its just convenient. Using windows is a hassle compared to it, just open youtube with any browser, click the top tiny square button in the video for pip and youll see what im talking about.

Typically I use it to watch stremio, it isnt as resizable by itself and its annoying to have my keyboard controls switch to a different app, this avoids that. Also if installing something you can have a tiny little window anywhere on your screen over your stuff showing progress.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6816/wtmb-window-thumbnails/

dash to panels better, tied with arcmenu and pip

you basically add addons and connect those addons to realdebrid in their settings (or whatever debrid service you use) and watch whatever, I have it on my tvs and computer solid, can save watch history and time decentlly too

need them to add pip, swapped back to gnome fkr the extension, always useful

picture in picture is video idk why its called pip

yeah thats pip lol, theres a gnome extension to do it with any window you can already do it with any video on most browsers by default

pip? Gnome extension for that is pretty great, works like the browser pip but for any window, justa video you can’t click on, but useful for stremio and other stuff you need a preview of, still high quality

yeah even the best overheating overpowered gaming laptops have way lower power draw compared to your average desktop? It’s really not that high or crazy to use an old laptop instead of buying a pi lol.

Warning tho, hella shills too but you could literally make a post asking if certain companies on the site that have active threads are scams and get valid responses that don’t get removed or anything so thats nice, like half of the ones I looked at were giving less resources than they claimed

lowendtalk, hella cheap vps with plenty of resources for most self hosted apps, the issue with it is usually storage space but there are ways around that connecting your drives from elsewhere