What’s the second one? PowerToys and?
It’s WSL, I think the logo is relatively new though or maybe not official idk
Interesting, didn’t know WSL had a logo. Thank you!
Oh, yes all the tools that should already exist in their crappy, uninnovated OS.
They still haven’t figured out how to do updates without installing during a reboot.
Something Linux has been doing since the 90’s
Sometimes those updates only apply when you reboot.
yes. And then it’s literally just a… reboot.
You don’t sit there waiting for it to install. It’s just restarting the kernel so the newly-installed version takes over. (and generally it only applies to the kernel updates.)
Fedora does the windows update style updates now a lot of the time.
You can turn that off and apply patches live, if you prefer. It’s just a toggle.
Technically rebooting and installing updates is “safer” but I’ve never had an update applied to a running system fail catastrophically, because unlike Windows, operating system components are compartmentalized. As such, restarting most system components causes no issues with functionality for everything else.
I miss the window tiling one. Its ability to span multiple “areas” with a window by holding a modifier key is something I sorely wish KDE’s tiling had.
Edit: FancyZones! Finally remembered the name.
I know it’s not KDE Plasma, but Gnome on Ubuntu has Tiling Shell. It also lets you span multiple tiles too.
Yeah, but then I’d be using Gnome.
Preach.
Fancy zones and alt snap rule! (Although I believe alt snap - click-dragging windows with a keyboard activator - is core window manager stuff?)
It isn’t the snapping I was referring to, but the ability to make a window span multiple areas. In KDE the window can only snap into a single area.
Meh… switch to linux, already
No true. I use it only for FancyZones. A feature not native to Linux. In gnome I also have to install a plugin to get this functionality.
I’m thankful for both.
The plugin install on Gnome is quicker and less invasive (doesn’t require escalated permissions) than installing PowerToys.
I also like that Gnome plugins let me choose only the plugins I want. PowerToys leaves me with many installed features I’m not using. I think they at least all default to turned off. Gnome does save me a few moments of configuration, too, as the plugin can default to “on” since each plugin is separate.
And Gnome’s tiling has good defaults. PowerToys still uses “these are power users” as an excuse to ignore usability feedback.
Gnome plugin are great. I’ve seen complaints about them breaking when gnome is upgraded, but I haven’t experienced any problems myself.
My only complaint is discoverability. I was rawdogging gnome in fedora for a while before i discovered the extension manager app in the Store. This should be built in!
Power toys is so bad now. Almost all the features are completely useless and it hogs a ton of system resources.
Powertoys on windows are a boon, but there’s absolutely no word you can say they make windows “behave like linux”. Not even close.
It’s for average users to make Windows easier to use. Though that’s the same as making it more Linux like
Have been using PowerToys for years, can’t imagine using Windows without it.
I’ve never heard of PowerToys Run, but it looks like Spotlight on MacOS but for Windows. Is this correct?
Yes! And they also have an Everything (way better search program than Windows has EVER been) plugin that I’ve tweaked to include Everything’s results at the top since the index it does is exponentially better than Windows’ own. Highly recommend for those that want that two button search that has always found what I was looking for on my own computer.
Shoutout to KDE for their search function, KRunner?, as it is amazing and ready to go from the get go.
Pretty much.
Is there a Linux application that does what fancyzones does?
If you are under KDE, there is a plugin for this, but I don’t recall the name. I’ll tell you later when on my computer. I use it everyday.
Gnome also has a plugin(s) for this.
I use both, Fancy Zones and Gnome, but I like (one of) the gnome version(s) better.
Mainly, the Gnome version puts a quick toggle on screen for switching layouts with the mouse, and it makes better choices about what windows to display when shifting between windows with Alt+Tab.
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