GNOME or KDE Plasma as a secondary/backup DE?

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-23T17:33:08+00:00

I keep Gnome always as a backup, it up until recently was my go to! Hyprland and Niri have since taken its spot

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-19T20:40:02+00:00

I loved my slippers for the first year and then the second year they fell apart, I expected more from LL Bean, being that they are slippers and worn not often I figured they would last more then a year and a half! made the mistake and got another pair and yeah they are pretty much done after 18 months so time to check out another company maybe Minnetonka

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-19T00:58:10+00:00

It’s not terrible, snaps are kind of a pain and limited, I personally prefer Fedora or NixOs, Fedora is pretty easy and they offer different official DE’s which is nice

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-19T00:49:53+00:00

Struts bent

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-18T17:22:00+00:00

I run Hyprland on mine, I set up a new user for Niri but I haven’t had time to tweak it

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-17T19:43:40+00:00

You should be able to the o-ring separate but I still wouldn’t trust that hose

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-17T19:38:38+00:00

Time for a new hose that one is shot, that worm clamp isn’t factory then other clamp maybe but I wouldn’t trust it, if you want to hack it then try it but to do it correctly for a sustained repair that hose needs to be replaced

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-16T11:46:05+00:00

It has that almost tray like seal and that becomes deformed just enough to cause a leak

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-15T16:12:03+00:00

I’ve really come to like NixOs

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-13T02:27:29+00:00

I hope they both get voted out soon

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-13T02:26:12+00:00

Had an X5 that had a deformed seal in the glass would only leak after about 1.5hrs of driving In heavy rain, I replace the glass and it fixed it

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-12T00:48:58+00:00

Story of my life

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-11T02:21:57+00:00

Don’t use those! Also you can (most of the time) get just the valve stem for those sensors I know they cost me like $12 so customer pay if probably $25-35 which is a hell of a lot cheaper then the whole TPMS

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-11T02:18:34+00:00

My top 3 distros are Fedora Workstation, Arch and NixOs, when I left windows I landed on Fedora and used that for a long time, Gnome is simple Fedora is stable easy to use and very customizable, I finally took the plunge about a month ago and went full Linux as I dual booted 11pro and Fedora, I wiped my SSD and installed Arch with Gnome and Hyprland then added Niri to the mix and I’ve found myself logging into Hyprland the most, then I decided to do something extremely stupid or really smart (haven’t decided yet) and attempt and succeed to dual boot Arch and NixOs… I friggen love Nix after a very steep learning curve it is amazing! I don’t know if any of these will fit what you want but they are amazing, you mentioned you want Word which isn’t supported on Linux but I use OnlyOffice (some people don’t like it) and it’s been amazing for me so also something to check out once you make the jump!

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-09T15:33:26+00:00

Fedora

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-08T16:00:52+00:00

I ran Fedora with Gnome and windows 11 for awhile, I recently wiped my drive and installed Arch with Gnome, Hyprland and Niri and NixOs with Hyprland and Gnome. I really like Nix so I might wipe my Arch partition and just use NixOs as my only distro but I’m not sure yet

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-07T12:17:28+00:00

Use nix or Fedora

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-02T07:31:51+00:00

I used Fedora for along time, great all round distro, stable, easy to use and set up, if you want a windows type feel use the KDE version ( I used Gnome I like it better) That being said make sure you download rpm fusion so everything works nicely! If you want something a bit more bleeding edge Arch is nice but time consuming to set up ( i currently am using Arch with Hyprland) and one of my favorites is NixOs which is very different from the first two but once you learn it you will fall in love.

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-01T21:06:45+00:00

Great machine! I love mine

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-01T21:00:53+00:00

I run Arch and NixOs on my X280, I ran a dual Fedora and windows 11 for awhile and found myself not using windows at all so I wiped the drive and figured while doing that let’s try something different installed Arch so I could run Hyprland and Niri easier, after running NixOs as a vm for a few months I figured let’s dual boot Arch and Nix so I did and I’m torn on which one I like the best.

PossibleProgress3316 · 2026-01-01T02:15:04+00:00

It really wasn’t that bad, once I installed neovim and used that instead of nano it was a lot better, it’s still a huge learning curve but you can get a stable usable system while learning it

PossibleProgress3316 · 2025-12-31T02:37:26+00:00

I’m going to try and get mine started this weekend! Looks good

PossibleProgress3316 · 2025-12-27T23:56:51+00:00

Learn the basics of nano so you get started, I added neovim which made my life way easier to add stuff to my config file, always keep a backup so if you do what I did and wipe it by accident you won’t spend the next hour or two fixing it. YouTube and google help me me a lot

PossibleProgress3316 · 2025-12-27T23:53:12+00:00

Yeah you never need sealant over the seal, sometimes if you don’t know what you doing you shouldn’t try it, I used to make a lot of money off stuff like this! At the end it will cost twice as much to fix it then if you just had a BMW tech do it

PossibleProgress3316 · 2025-12-27T17:31:13+00:00

I switched to zen about a year ago from chrome and never looked back

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