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I'll share my experience as full-time 100% happy Linux user since 2018. I used Ubuntu up until a few months ago when I got my new laptop (Framework, btw). I just switched to Manjaro and have had a flawless experience. The pain point in the beginning was the common losing Photoshop conundrum, but I've found better solutions for web design since then and only use Gimp when I need to clean up/crop/make web-ready bitmap images. Moving primarily to vector for UI makes bitmap design feel very un-web. For web and layout design I've switched over to using the FOSS Penpot web app. I've traditionally be hesitant to embrace a web platform, but really with today's state of web technology I feel at home with it now and don't miss a desktop app. I've also come to appreciate that a web platform allows developers to iterate, bugfix, and deploy new features much more quickly without having to wait for an entire full local app update. I get that this can be a pain point for those looking to make the switch. In my case my work is UI/UX based and don't consider myself, nor have the talent for, a graphic designer. I, like pretty much everyone here, absolutely have to have a dependable machine to do work. My ability to earn an income stops dead without a usable laptop and having a backup machine just isn't a viable option considering how much it would take to fall back on. I'll back-to-back my experiences. I'm not trying to sell anyone on these distros, but the experience has broadened some horizons. I didn't switch for 5 years. Do what you want, it's still *checks watch* a free country. Linux in general: Free and open source. I've become much more aware and appreciative of how great this is. I don't feel "screwed around with". The "innovations" coming out of Microsoft and MacOS updates tend to be disruptive and entirely subjective as far as their utility and value are concerned. There hasn't been one single feature that they've released that I feel like I'm missing out on, and in some cases already have. Plenty of stuff I'm grateful not to have or deal with. Apple has been long-term recognized for it's decline in the "pro" experience. I feel more at home on servers and have stronger skills on the command line. Even if the distros are different, you still get a shared directory and OS behavior between server and desktop. I always appreciated Mac for the *nix-like environment, but switching to Linux still felt a lot more awesome because at the end of the day I wasn't jumping between OS' that have true distinctions. Docker just runs better both in ease of installing/managing and in raw performance- which Mac really struggles with. The fact that Windows now at least has WSL is a nod to the needs of developers. Mac specifically has had known performance issues for years. For me, security and privacy is a big deal. Win is completely out of the question, and Apple's claims are becoming less trustworthy on this front. When I boot my computer and connect to the internet my network up/down activity is literally a flat line. Aside from having automatic update checking for the OS, it don't talk to nobody nowhere about nothin'. Not possible with Win/Mac and I am also not constantly accepting new terms of service and opting out of things left and right. I think Windows Recall and Apple Intelligence are really dumb and whatever promises are made today about "security and privacy" can be cancelled via new Terms and Conditions you're forced to agree to so you can continue using your computer after a decision made based on what side of the bed a CEO woke up on or earnings report demanding more profits be made or else the CEO will be fired and replaced with a new CEO who will force it upon everyone anyway. A run-on sentence for a run-on problem. NVIDIA support is spotty, and that's on NVIDIA (linus_middle_finger_nvidia.jpg). My previous machine did have an NVIDIA gpu but it was as old as the 2018 laptop and I never had real problems with it since it had long been stable. If you're someone who needs new NVIDIA, it'll come down to some research about your gpu and compatibility. Aside from the graphics app situation, I didn't feel like I lost anything. My code editor (Sublime Text, I'm switching to Neovim) is available and there's a lot of availability great alternatives without compromise. If you like games, Steam's compatibility layer and continually widening native game selection has been a massive improvement. I'm an extremely casual game player though and others would have a better opinion on more serious gaming. Linux is a beacon of hope when faced with the depressing and accelerating trend known as "the ens**ttification of everything" Obvs, full customization, many desktop environment/window tiling options, it's like exploring the limitless frontier of space. You can do anything you want, including getting sucked into a black hole of customizing your machine and realizing at some point you just have to stop or you'll never stop. Never been there, no idea what that's like, totally hypothetical on my part, really, I would never do that, I see that none of you believe me. Ubuntu positives: Debian based means wide availability in software and a ton of support. Easy to find help online when needed. Everything can pretty much be relied upon to be ready out of the box Stable. Very. This is why I used it for so long, for reasons mentioned above Well tested before releases so you know upgrades are far less likely to break something save for the most deeply customized and tweaked systems Ready to go out of the box and does well maintaining availability for things like NVIDIA drivers where stable. It's why my NVIDIA gpu never had issues which was highly appreciated. The softest landing for someone making the jump from Win/Apple I never borked my machine to a point where it needed serious effort to get working again. This does not include typing "sudo rm -rf --force" into a terminal within a VM to see what would actually happen only to realize the VM wasn't in focus and it was actually a real terminal and find out it does exactly what you think it would do Ubuntu not-so-positives: I'll address the elephant in the room: Snaps. I've never liked them, but having had the choice of how I installed/managed my apps made it less of an issue. My tolerance ran dry once they started replacing system apps with Snaps at a direct cost of integrations due to sandboxing. Most simple example would be the calculator- they Snap'd it and you couldn't quickly type math into the Gnome search input, that's a micro-example but there are others that were problematic. Choosing to replace apps by default while removing features is just not great, especially when Snap hadn't been widely well received. Fresh installs meant a lot of work uninstalling and replacing- to a point where I kept a "checklist" so I didn't have to look them up. Snaps part II: The latest version of Ubuntu has now forced Snaps and added a lot of difficulty even forcing it to not install them by default. When I type "sudo apt install firefox", I expect a deb. What I didn't type was "snap install firefox", and Ubuntu choosing to ignore and deceptively replace what you asked for is unacceptable. I didn't know this happened until a) Firefox took longer to open, and b) I went to "About Firefox" to check. Not not not cool and it made me lose trust in Canonical. It involves extra steps that never existed before Feels bloated, I got a performance boost on the same machine switching to another distro. This means different things to different people though. Bi-annual stable release means that it's generally behind versions in things like Gnome and the kernel. This isn't 100% bad because that's a tradeoff made for peace-of-mind stability. I'm not sure if this is widespread, but out of the box APT fails because it hangs using ipv6 and doesn't fall back to ipv4. No idea why but I have to fix this on every install. Again, like the Snap calculator example, this is not a huge issue but things add up. Manjaro positives: Arch based without Arch stability anxiety. I am completely capable of managing an Arch distro but I just don't have the time to do it. As much as I want to use Arch, btw. I need to sit down at my computer and work without some concern that I might have to take a detour to manage the OS because it could cause me trouble with deadlines and confidently delivering for clients. Arch updates are tested and have a healthy delay between bleeding edge release and Manjaro updates. Personally, I wait an extra week- unless it's a notable security update, and just check in on the message boards to see if there are any known issues, then update myself. The maintainers are responsive and communicative. Absolutely faster and leaner than Ubuntu. Some of this comes from having more recent updates sooner. Gnome was a big difference because Ubuntu doesn't update as often and known performance issues take a lot longer to make it into the OS by comparison Truly clean install. Example- the dock on the left side of the screen was mentioned- not a problem on vanilla Gnome that hasn't been modified by Canonical Still has a wide selection of software. I lost nothing when switching. AUR (Arch User Repository) provides a lot of software that you are looking for available on Deb but repackaged for Arch. This falls into both positives and considerations Sane defaults, 100% worked out of the box, dip your toes into Arch without falling in. I may switch to it down the line. Manjaro considerations: Need to be mindful about updates, this is mitigated by what I mentioned above, but you have to be aware and make more decisions than Ubuntu. AUR is wide open and community maintained. Installing apps willy-nilly opens up possibilities for bad or unmaintained software. I've adopted an "install it only if you need it" and read up before I install. With Ubuntu I noticed I cared a little less about this because a lot of stuff is available via Ubuntu and trusted repositories. I'd also chalk that up to a potential false sense of security because of how beginner friendly it is. Everyone should keep this in mind regardless of distro. Involves extra documentation. If I have to look something up I check Manjaro specific info, then fall back to Arch. No something I ever needed with Ubuntu The reason one has not-so-positives, and the other has considerations is because there hasn't been anything that I don't like or been forced to deal with, only decisions I had to make when switching. Different experience. Others do not like what I like about Manjaro, and that's cool. All said- I'm not making a case for Manjaro specifically- just sharing what a compare/contrast looks like between distros and specifically back to back with Ubuntu. There are plenty of alternatives out there. Find one you like, or distro hop for fun and research. I like Gnome, others like KDE, others like i3, knock yourself out- install more than one. The world is your oyster, in space, next to the black holes. Why I mentioned my laptop... I bought a Framework 16 and love everything about it. Modularity, repairability, upgradeablity, company ethos, etc. On top of all that they have first-class Linux support and an internal team that actively works on this. Ubuntu is an officially supported distro, Manjaro is not but I've had zero issues whatsoever. Worth considering if you're in the market for a new machine. I also considered the companies mentioned by @gebeer and in the past I had a System76 as well. There are more great options these days than ever IMHO. I also want to mention- little to no fan noise at all except under real load that are directly related to what I'm doing. Maybe a little during automatic disk backups but those are fast and only when I'm connected to my external. I think the specs on a fresh machine probably help that, but battery life is also great. I also don't have the optional dedicated GPU, the AMD chip does very well with a lot of games. This has happened once for me last month and it was for a completely aesthetic and totally unnecessary it's-okay-to-laugh-at-me-for-installing-this "neat thing". I try to keep things simple but agree that this is an issue with much-customized DEs. My issue stemmed from distro updates coming out faster than the extension. Overall agree and YMMV. Happens less with Ubuntu due to the delayed Gnome releases that can be multiple versions behind current but are stable. Mad respect. I wish I could live on this level of bleeding edge. Feels like I'm watching a someone drive by in a Porsche 911 GT2 from behind the fence at a daycare playground ? GrapheneOS here. You have to like not having a lot of things though haha. Bravo. Did this years ago and it's liberating for many reasons- this forum is pretty much the only "social" account I have. As for privacy, I'll send you the dossier I purchased from a data broker with a map of your activities on and offline for the past 6 months, no need to send me your address, I know where to mail it ?

Mind blown. I wish I had known this years ago ?

Over the years there's been a growing part of me that's wanted to be a full-time Linux user. I've been using Windows from the beginning and attempted to switch to macOS a few years ago (given the excitement of M1) however I gave up after 8 solid months because I came to dislike some issues that I couldn't circumvent in macOS. Due to some fear, impatience and most importantly, software compatibility, I have not made the switch to Linux, but times have changed. I've played around with the big distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc.) in some way or another. I've grown extremely comfortable with Bash, the command line and have the confidence in working my way out of issues (a lot of this is due to the hardware business I was involved with for 7 years which sharpened by skills). I've dealt with installing Nvidia drivers in every which way too (if you know, you know). Whenever Ubuntu releases an LTS version, I tend to experiment with it and I did so last night with 24.04. Really annoying things like not being able to move the taskbar from the left to the bottom without having to use extensions that could break, are now natively supported (IIRC you couldn't do this so easily before). That sounds like a minor nit-pick but if there's something I know about myself, it's that if I don't have to reprogram my muscle memory, I will have an easier time. The mouse movement feels Windows-like (this truly annoyed me with macOS despite trying every program and tweak in existence) and font rendering doesn't seem to bother me as much as macOS. Again these seem like minor nit-pick type things but to me they matter. At this point, it comes down to software compatibility. I'm not some hardcore Office user and I barely use it beyond basic word processing, so that's not an issue. The only other software suite is Adobe CC. I do rely on Photoshop and Illustrator, but not for "creating" but rather tweaking. I've built some muscle memory with those apps as well but I can't let them hold me back. I know Photopea exists which many have raved about being a great Photoshop alternative and which supports PSD quite well from what I've heard. So that's always an option combined with Gimp or Krita if I don't have to deal with actual PSD files. Maybe I'll set up a VM with Windows to help ease the transition. So at this point, there's nothing holding me back. I installed Ubuntu 24.04 on my main system along-side Windows (dual boot). In a couple months, I will try to switch. Any other desktop Linux users here? BTW, I'm sticking with Ubuntu because I like how it's Debian-based. I know there's some disagreements with snaps being used, etc., but because it's the most popular Linux distro and feels polished enough and similar to Windows, it's the best place to start (and maybe stay).

Not sure if anyone of you ever ran into the issue that your .htaccess file redirects to a forced www-version. I use this in most of my setups way more lately. There is the option to add additional hostnames to your DDEV config right away or later on from the CLI. ddev config --additional-hostnames www.pwseo You can update your .ddev/config.yaml manually as well - restart is needed in both cases. name: pwseo type: php docroot: "" php_version: "8.2" webserver_type: apache-fpm xdebug_enabled: false additional_hostnames: - www.pwseo additional_fqdns: [] database: type: mariadb version: "10.4" use_dns_when_possible: true composer_version: "2" web_environment: [] This setup saves me headaches in terms of keeping different .htaccess files around for DEV/STAGE/PROD.

Best Gnome I've ever used for sure. NICE. Glad you got it working!

Don't remember the exact packages but some weren't available at all, some broken... it was a disaster. Stayed on Manjaro for a few weeks on, even a big update didn't fix it. So I moved on. Right now the latest minimal i3 .iso is loading and Gnome Boxes is ready for test-drive. Perfect sunday evening. ? Update: Maybe I'm sold on Manjaro again. Installed the i3 and Gnome version in Boxes and even the Gnome version was way faster there than the native/bare-metal Ubuntu-version of Gnome. Installing DDEV on Manjaro is even easier than on Ubuntu now: sudo pacman -Syyu sudo pacman -S docker yay -Syyu ddev-bin sudo usermod -aG docker $USER sudo systemctl start docker.service sudo systemctl enable docker.service reboot AND... everything looks way more polished in Gnome now. Will keep the VM for a while and work on some projects there. That's insane how good Manjaro became (compared to Ubuntu and Fedora).

Active developers, passionate team, can self-host. Entirely happy with it! I don't remember it being difficult, everything works as well as it did when I was on Ubuntu. Odd that it gave you trouble. I installed Docker then DDEV then done.

Wow... Penpot is awesome. Maybe it's time to ditch Figma and move over all my files. Manjaro was really an awesome experience but I moved when there was no way to install a working DDEV environment with it. Are there now all moving parts available? Didn't plan to move back, but maybe... the AUR, minimal footprint, and recent versions were great.

It seems I find myself where is problem with script from you. This version is working for me: foreach($pages->find("template=ks-import-hlavicka") as $cp) { $polozky = $pages->find("template=polozka_ks, id_hlavicka_ks={$cp->id_hlavicka_ks}, status<" . Page::statusTrash); $cp->Polozky_ks->add($polozky); $cp->setAndSave('Polozky_ks',$polozky); } Most important is that in setAndSave is needed to specify that page field to which I need to save changes and update data... Without it there was no change in data...and no linked other pages... Regarding page reference field with single-page input, there is not needed to use "add" method. It throws error if I used it for adding data, because I had same data already on same page... I tried to add linked page with customer data to contract page and it is always only one customer for contract... So thanks for your initial hint with script and now it is working...hope this could help to others also...

FormBuilderHtmx is now available in the modules directory and can be installed via Composer. Thanks to all for the feedback and testing! If there are improvements or edge case issues, feel free to file a bug report on the GitHub repo or check in here for support.

hello and thank you both for your ideas, the easiest first: browsers are not scaled. what i can see in the devtools is that for the h1 tag in the editor <div class="tox-collection__item-label"> <h1 style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 32px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none solid rgb(34, 34, 34); text-transform: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 2px; border: 0px none rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; outline: rgb(34, 34, 34) none 0px; text-shadow: none;"> Überschrift 1 </h1> </div> this css makes a difference: skin.min.css:1 @media only screen and (min-width: 768px) { .tox .tox-menu .tox-collection__item-label { overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: normal; } } scaling the viewport to < 768px or deactivating overflow-wrap: break-word; shows at least the <h1> tag as i would expect it to.

It was the goal by insisting a bit, glad it work and cheer on you for not surrendering ?

The core dev branch version has been bumped up to 3.0.240 this week. As always, see @teppo's excellent ProcessWire Weekly for details on what has been added recently. More can also be found in the commit log. This week adds the ability to hook into ProcessWire's admin live search to add your own custom results. This is useful for modules or for your own hooks placed in /site/templates/admin.php. Previously, only modules implementing the SearchableModule interface could manipulate the admin search engine results. Now there's another even simpler way to do it. We'll focus on examples placed in /site/templates/admin.php, but they could also go in /site/ready.php, /site/init.php or in an autoload module's init() or ready() method. The following is a simple example for when one types "today" into the search engine, it returns search results of pages that were modified today. $wire->addHook('ProcessPageSearchLive::findCustom', function(HookEvent $event) { $data = $event->arguments(0); // array $search = $event->object; // ProcesPageSearchLive $group = 'Pages modified today'; // description of this type of search if($data['q'] === 'today') { $items = $event->wire()->pages->find("modified>=today, include=unpublished"); foreach($items as $item) { $search->addResult($group, $item->title, $item->editUrl); } } }); The point of that example is just to demonstrate something simple. In reality, that example isn't that useful because you can already type "modified>=today" to get the same results in the search engine. So let's look at a potentially more useful example. There have recently been requests for better "id" search support in the search engine. In this next example, we add support for "id=123" searches, where it will match templates, fields or pages having id "123" (or whatever ID you specify). Further, it will also support it if you just type "123" on its own. Here's how we might accomplish that below. We'll limit this particular type of search to the superuser since this hook doesn't have any access control checking. if($user->isSuperuser()) { $wire->addHook('ProcessPageSearchLive::findCustom', function(HookEvent $e) { $search = $e->object; /** @var ProcessPageSearchLive $search */ $data = $e->arguments(0); /** @var array $data Search data */ $type = $data['type']; // what to search $q = $data['q']; // search query text // support search of "id=123" or just "123" // skip search if not an "id" search, or query is not a number if(($type != 'id' && !empty($type)) || !ctype_digit($q)) return; // reduce default search operator "%=" to just "=" (if used) $operator = trim($data['operator'], '%'); // search for id in templates, fields and pages foreach(['templates', 'fields', 'pages' ] as $apiVarName) { $apiVar = $e->wire($apiVarName); // get API var $selector = "id$operator$q"; // selector i.e. id=123 or id<10, etc. // some additional considerations for page ID searches if($apiVarName === 'pages') { // PW already handles "id=123" for pages, so skip that kind if($type === 'id' && $operator === '=') continue; // add more to selector for page searches $selector .= ", include=all, limit=$data[limit], start=$data[start]"; } // find by selector $items = $apiVar->find($selector); // tell ProcessPageSearch which results we found foreach($items as $item) { $title = $item->get('title|label|name'); $url = $item->editUrl(); $search->addResult($apiVarName, $title, $url); } // optionally return false to tell it to stop searching after this hook // which would prevent the default behavior of the search engine // $e->return = false; } }); } As you may (or not) know, the search engine displays help if you type the word "help". Help for the search engine usually consists of example searches and descriptions of what those examples do. If we want to add some help for our example above, we could add this to to the top of our hook above, perhaps right after the $data = $e->arguments(0); line: if(!empty($data['help'])) { return $search->addHelp('ID Search Help', [ 'id=1234' => 'Find templates, fields, pages with id 1234', '1234' => 'Same as above but “id=” is optional', ]); } That's the gist of it. These are fairly basic examples but hopefully communicate enough to show that you can add any kind of results you want into the search engine. Right now it's pretty simple and enables anyone with a ProcessWire site to add custom results into the admin live search. But if you find your needs go beyond this, the SearchableModule interface does support more options too. It's also worth using TracyDebugger to examine the $data array that the hook receives, as there are several other things in there you may find useful as well. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

It should work right away. You should see the tracked pages here: Menu "Setup" > "Most Viewed".

Hi @wbmnfktr thanks for your feedback! Here's briefly how it works with the default values of 1 day, 2 days and 3 days: Think of the 1st timerange as plan A - it fetches the 10 most viewed pages in the last 24 hours. If for whatever reason there haven't been 10 pages viewed in the past 24 hours, we then move to plan B, which is the 2nd timerange. Here, we look into the past 48 hours for page views. The 3rd timerange is plan C, in case we still need more articles to complete our list of "10 most viewed pages". So really, the 2nd and 3rd timeranges are like our safety nets to always make sure that we have a full list of 10 pages, regardless of viewer traffic. But given your site is quite crowded, it's likely that the list will be filled up within the first 24 hours, so you may not ever even need the 2nd and 3rd timeranges. Regarding the waiting time post-installation: it all depends on your timeranges. If you've set them as 1 day, 2 days, and 3 days, then ideally you'd wait for 3 days. But in practice, if your site has a good traffic volume, you may start seeing your top articles much sooner! If you adjust your first timerange to be 7 days and 8/9 days as a fallback (10080, 11520 and 12960 minutes) you'd ideally wait for 7-9 days. Does that make sense? I've tidied up the way we log events to prevent any confusion. Just to clarify: - 404 page-views don't contribute to the count and so, to avoid clutter, they've been removed from the logs, even while debugging. - another reason for removing 404 from the logs: every missing image, file, etc triggers a 404 - which can and surely will eventually be a lot. - the tracking of our module isn't affected by what PageHitCounter does, because it's triggering a 404 event that we ignore either way. I've also updated the logs to include the reason each time a page-view gets passed over. This means not only will you know which views have been tracked, but also which ones weren't tracked and exactly why. Thanks for that - I've also updated the check for crawler. I'm using the same method as PageHitCounter - this seems like a reliable approach. I have updated the GitHub Repository with the most recent changes. You can check the releases section there to see them. Alternatively, you should be able to update the module directly from the module configuration in your ProcessWire installation by clicking the link 'check for updates' right next to the module-version. Hope that helped! Cheers

Imagine we could clone @ryan. (super villain laughing in the background)

? <- me, pretty much all the time with ProcessWire. Fantastic stuff. Thanks as always, and happy Friday everyone!

That really works. I didn't know that. Not at all. TIL: something new, again. Have a great weekend @ryan and everyone that is reading this.

Although they have been bought by Canva, once I got used to how Affinity does things their Photo/Designer/Publisher trinity is my daily driver - particularly with the improvements finally brought to Publisher to make it feature complete with Serif's prior publisher (proper endnotes/footnotes support). And they do run on Linux with Wine and a bit of massaging: https://codeberg.org/Wanesty/affinity-wine-docs

For 20+ years I've always maintained a Windows box and a Linux box connected via a KVM switch and with a dual monitor setup. I also have a somewhat older Intel IMac I keep for various tasks. I haven't given it much thought as I regularly switch between Linux and Win10 throughout the day. As far as distros go, I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 KDE and will probably upgrade (clean install) after summer sometime. My $0.02...

The larger picture of why I'm doing this is to overall De-Google, De-Microsoft and De-Apple my life as much as possible (surely there will be exceptions). It's not about saving money or privacy (those are very very minor points), but personal optimization, control, me being ready for it, Linux desktop having become really great in the last X years, and taking a stronger liking to FOSS and self-hosting.

Go for it! The distro you choose doesn't really matter imo. Just use the one you feel most comfortable with. I'm full time on Linux since 2003 and haven't thought about switching back to Win or Mac ever since. Maybe Linux on Mac hardware ? Back in the days Ubuntu was released as free DVD via mailorder ? My journey went from Ubuntu to Debian Based Mint (LMDE) with Mate, then Cinnamon desktop. I finally settled on Arch (btw) for the last 8 years or so. Now I'm in the process of switching to NixOS for its deterministic setup approach and reproducability of exactly the same system on multiple machines. Lot's of fun if you're coming from a programming background. Anyways, as for graphics apps, I've been using a pirated CS6 in VMs for many years. Then switched to Photopea. Not doing a lot of graphics. But sometimes really am missing Illustrator, mainly for its text on path features. You can do it with Inkscape but it is fiddly as hell. Photopea is even better with that. File manager color labels: Nautilus on Gnome needs an extension for that from a custom PPA. If you feel comfortable using gnome extensions and packages from random PPAs out there, you could go that route. Gnome is great in itself. But, you already said it, might break easily when using extensions. Kinda like the Wordpress Plugin Hell. KDE does not have that out of the box as far as I'm aware. Found a 6 years old extension... Maybe you missed out on terminal file managers. There's a ton out there. I love yazi with vim style key binds (configurable through toml file). It has file colors/icons out of the box if you use Nerd Fonts in the terminal and feels really nice for a terminal application: You can disable snaps and replace them with flatpak which is a way better ecosystem given you have ample disk space. This depends very much on the hardware and distro used. You really should have had a better exoperience given that you bought a Linux optimized laptop. I have one, too (Tuxedo with AMD) and it seems I got lucky or they did a better job than your vendor. Never hear even the faintest fan noise. Then I have a 10 year old Asus ZenBook. Still running like a champ with very moderate noise under high loads. Linux is so awesome because of all the choices it gives you. Can be a bit overwhelming at the start, though. Man, I could talk hours on end about this topic. What a great way to procrastinate ?