It was also showing the same bar on all 3-monitors! I wanted my neighbors to know just how hard I was installing Linux!

😬 sshhhhh, don’t tell anyone!

That’s what I like to hear!!

Thank you! :D

Is it cause I’m regedit? I am just a lowly Windows registry looking for love!

I wasn’t sure if that reference would fit here so I’m glad you enjoyed it! I am diggin’ the experience so far. Haven’t gamed on it, yet, but after reinstalling for GNOME, it’s been smooth sailing!

Ditto, friend. Which DE did you end up going with? I started with KDE but had bad luck with app crashes last night and odd desktop displays so I reinstalled fresh with GNOME (didn’t need to worry about reinstalling vs switching DEs cause there wasn’t much done with the OS by that point).

I had already done that before pulling the trigger. I used Obsidian to get a listing of distros and then took notes as I tested them on my Lenovo Yoga 720 laptop. Obviously, not the same as my daily gaming rig, but it gave me a good enough approximation for how well I’d like some of the distros I tried. In the end it was Mint Cinnamon (currently installed on my Yoga) or openSUSE. I eventually had to reinstall openSUSE last night when KDE started giving me trouble. It’s probably the last time I try KDE for a while. I just don’t seem to have good luck with it all three times I’ve tried it across different distros.

Either way GNOME is working great this morning and I’m working on getting stuff customized!!

I played with it a bit. Can’t remember my thoughts on it but when I was testing different distros for myself, my wife, and in-laws, I took notes for it.

Nice! Yeah I made a full VHDX of my C: drive prior to pulling the trigger on this.

Thank you. Trying to take my time since this is my main box!

I appreciate the cautionary tale. I already had to reinstall. I gave KDE another shot thinking previous issues were from the old Lenovo Yoga or distro I used it with. Unfortunately, that wasn’t so. Even though I intentionally took my time customizing the layout, somehow I had some KDE thing crash twice, the main display had shifted to only showing have the page, like it was stuck under the monitor, and after a reboot to fix that problem it had made it so the context menu on the main desktop was not showing all the options.

While I’m not a fan of GNOME, per say, as I am not a fan of Apple style docks for a taskbar, I never had issues with it, so I am using that instead of KDE.

Genuine laugh out of this comment! Thanks!