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What am I into I hear no one asking?

  • Linux desktop
  • World of Warcraft
  • Counter Strike 2
  • Anime & Manga
  • Books
  • Motorsport (F1, GT3, Hypercars, MotoGP)

Current Systems

🖥️ Desktop: Ryzen 7 5800X3D · 64GB DDR4 · RX 6700XT · Debian Testing
⌨️ Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro · Asus ROG Azoth
💻 Laptop: ThinkPad T470s · 20GB DDR4 · Debian Trixie

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  • Over the years, I don’t think there’s many DE’s or WM’s that I haven’t tried to live with on a daily driver, such as KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, Qtile, XMonad, I3, AwesomeWM, etc etc. What I found over the years was how much I appreciated a clean, simplistic UI for an operating system.

    After spending multiple years on ‘window manager only’ setups (got fed up with updating configs on major updates, and got fed up with the amount of config I had to do), I returned back to KDE mainly for the intense amount of OOTB customisation. However, what I realised after a while was that I was just setting up KDE to look and behave like Gnome.

    So 2 years after last using KDE, I’m now just using Gnome all the time. I like the workflow, on laptop personally I think the gesture navigation is better than any other DE, and I love the simplistic design. Plus extensions get me what isn’t included OOTB.

    Downside to Gnome is when major updates occur and extensions break as a result, other than that I can’t think of much bad about Gnome

















  • I just want to preface this by saying this is completely off the top of my head, so I may be slightly off, please do your own research before running anything blindly.

    You may need to enable the service. Do a quick reboot, and then check the status of Network manager:

    sudo systemctl status NetworkManager

    If you see that is says Disabled (usually in red text) then you will indeed need to enable it. First start the service:

    sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

    And then so it starts when you boot in, we finally enable:

    sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager

    Once that’s done, test by rebooting again and hopefully it should be up and running :)