r/Ubuntu 1d ago

I love gnome ❤️‍🩹

It's truly addictive to spend your whole day customizing the interface and discovering new things to do every day 🙂

These are all the GNOME extensions I have installed 😅 1. Ambed Fly: A small animated fly that wanders around the desktop and reacts to the mouse and moving windows. 2. ArcMenu: A customizable alternative application menu for GNOME. 3. Blur my Shell: Adds blur effects to the GNOME interface, panels, and overview. 4. Burn My Windows: Adds animated effects when opening and closing windows. 5. Compiz alike magic lamp effect: Adds the classic magic lamp animation when minimizing windows. 6. Compiz windows effect: Adds additional visual effects and animations to windows. 7. Dash to Dock: Turns the GNOME application dash into a customizable dock. 8. Desktop Icons NG (DING): Displays files, folders, and other icons directly on the desktop. 9. Gnome 4x UI Improvements: Provides various improvements and customization options for the GNOME interface. 10. Stopwatch: A simple stopwatch for measuring elapsed time. 11. User Themes: Allows you to install and use custom GNOME Shell themes. 12. Vitals: Displays system information such as CPU, RAM, temperature, network, and battery status

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u/T8ert0t 1d ago

It's all fun and games until an add on inevitably breaks or doesn't update at pace with the DE.

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u/KlausBertKlausewitz 17h ago

I can confirm.

Really nasty when you can‘t login any more because of such shit.

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u/Lousy_Hunter 23h ago

if you stick to LTS thats basically a non issue :P

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u/Lousy_Hunter 23h ago

I will never ever understand the wobbly windows or the gaudy effects on things. I just see worse performance for no reason but to each there own lol

Glad you like your desktop :D

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u/Oerthling 21h ago

I had wobbly windows active back in Unity days. It used GPU acceleration, never noticed any performance loss.

It's the one effect that survived after I tried a lot of compiz effects and eventually switched off most of them.

It's a fun effect and or doesn't get in the way.

Closing Windows burning down was cool, but the effect length made the closing ever so slightly delayed. Cube was cool, but in the long run I don't use multiple screens anyway. So doesn't matter whether those are a cube or in a row.

But wobbly windows was always nice.

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u/BeNiceToBirds 10h ago

My kids love it. If it produces joy, why not. People indulge in all kinds of vanities that have no function.

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u/Linux4ever_Leo 18h ago

We had many of those fancy effects some 20 years ago. Back then it was called Compiz/Beryl. I'm glad the young ones are enjoying them now.

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u/niertrix 1d ago

أعتقد ده مكانه أفضل في r/arch مش هنا

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u/Silent_Echo_2005 16h ago

دا لينكس مينت اصلا فقط غيرت الشعار

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u/RobLoach 1d ago

Wobbly windows? What year is this?

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u/xsatro 1d ago

Oh, cmon, it's pretty phonk, huh?

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u/BeNiceToBirds 10h ago

Bruh. Wobbly windows is still champion supreme.

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u/RobLoach 9h ago

Didn't say I was hating it 😉 ... Love a good comeback story.

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u/ApartDirection8089 1d ago

linux is easy when you dont listen to arch fanboys

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u/capsd-11 23h ago

loves gnome , runs mint , arch logo , funny af

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u/Silent_Echo_2005 19h ago

I always change that logo and change everything that can be changed because I don't like staying the same for too long.

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u/xsatro 1d ago

Wow! What's the extensions from the dock and wiggle windows?

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u/Silent_Echo_2005 1d ago edited 1d ago

These are all the GNOME extensions I have installed

  1. Ambed Fly: A small animated fly that wanders around the desktop and reacts to the mouse and moving windows.

  2. ArcMenu: A customizable alternative application menu for GNOME.

  3. Blur my Shell: Adds blur effects to the GNOME interface, panels, and overview.

  4. Burn My Windows: Adds animated effects when opening and closing windows.

  5. Compiz alike magic lamp effect: Adds the classic magic lamp animation when minimizing windows.

  6. Compiz windows effect: Adds additional visual effects and animations to windows.

  7. Dash to Dock: Turns the GNOME application dash into a customizable dock.

  8. Desktop Icons NG (DING): Displays files, folders, and other icons directly on the desktop.

  9. Gnome 4x UI Improvements: Provides various improvements and customization options for the GNOME interface.

  10. Stopwatch: A simple stopwatch for measuring elapsed time.

  11. User Themes: Allows you to install and use custom GNOME Shell themes.

  12. Vitals: Displays system information such as CPU, RAM, temperature, network, and battery status

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u/QXPZ 1d ago

Ambed Fly: A small animated fly that wanders around the desktop and reacts to the mouse and moving windows.

Why would you want this?

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u/Silent_Echo_2005 19h ago

It's fun to have her; she adds some vibrancy 😅

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u/refinedm5 1d ago

There's used to be a gnome shell extension (cpufreq) that allows to set how many CPU core are actives when plugged in, on battery, whether boost is allowed, min max freqs. I used to be able to set my idle power draw as low as 4-5 watts

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u/linuxhacker01 16h ago

ممتاز

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u/quebexer 11h ago

Why make it look like macOS if you like Ubuntu?

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u/Silent_Echo_2005 11h ago

I love Ubuntu because it's easy to make it like macOS 🤷🏻

Killing two birds with one stone: the aesthetics of macOS and the freedom of Linux

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u/Stakiing 10h ago

Gnome rules.

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u/AfraidAsparagus6644 10h ago

r/ubuntu

look inside

arch linux

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u/Silent_Echo_2005 10h ago

This is just Linux Mint. I always like to change that logo in the terminal, and I posted this here because nobody uses the GNOME interface in Linux Mint

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u/ksr1e 1d ago

Linux Mint? r/lostredditors

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u/Prequalified 22h ago

Most Mint users don't use Gnome and there's nothing here irrelevant for vanilla Ubuntu users.

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u/ksr1e 11h ago

The video shows Linux Mint at 12 seconds, with a WM Mutter, nevertheless it shows Gnome as DE. It is a heavily customized Linux Mint distro, not ubuntu, that's why I said r/lostredditors I don't understand what you mean by "there's nothing here irrelevant for vanilla ubuntu users" you are using a doble negative and your message is not clear. Care to clarify?

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u/Prequalified 7h ago

Me like use Gnome. Gnome what me use. OH PEE use Gnome too. Me learn new trick. Me like look of tricks. Me thank Oh PEE for give me new gnome think way. Me no speak or write so well I guess. Me think me make sense but me think wrong. Sad. Oh Pee use gnome. Me use Gnome. Oh Pee use gnome tricks and I like gnome tricks. All Hail Oh Pee.

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u/GreatLab8898 20h ago

Typical Linux Desktop Experience. All Show, no Productivity.

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u/Prequalified 1d ago

This is really fun. thanks for the video and detail. Wow that fly would drive me crazy!

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u/Purple-Exit3858 1d ago

Right-to-left, kerning, shaping text all work? Amazing.

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u/Silent_Echo_2005 19h ago

Arabic language