• BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    That’s weird, and sucks you had that experience. I should take a step back and say that I haven’t used a lot of different districts, including Debian. What I have experienced though, was either a star menu like button either in the bottom left, to left, or a floating dock.

    I went full in on Arch when I made my permanent switch a couple of years back to make myself really learn more rather than just plug and play. That may be skewing my perspective some. However, I did throw mint on an old laptop that I have to my brother, and I was shocked that everything was exactly ready to go after install. Libre office, browser, other useful tools, updates, etc. I spent more time verifying things than configuring them and just passed it off.

    I know that at least when I install kde in Arch, there are a few different build options from fully loaded to no extra apps. Perhaps with Debian there is a similar selection and you grabbed something stripped down rather than fully loaded? I’m not sure, but it’s good to hear this stuff to check my ignorance when discussing this with people.

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      5 hours ago

      yeah, it was wild. I was trying to do set up some computer labs. Debian was the first suggestion in the guide:

      After the second reinstall of Debian, I gave Fedora a try as it was the second to be suggested. Only to be greeted with this:

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      It took me forever to realize that dash-dot at the top left was not some stylization and was a button to show the overview.

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        2 hours ago

        Oof yea. I can see how that’s missed. Knowing it’s there, I kind of like the minimalist design. Not ideal for a new user.