Fedora-35Beta is fast and slick

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#1

I’m very impressed with the speed of Fedora-35Beta/Gnome-41. My desktop with only 3.4GB of RAM struggled with Ubuntu (a couple of years ago) and is fine on Fedora-34, but my impression is that with 35 the desktop is faster.
Gnome seems to have it just right now. Even the way workspaces are dealt with is clever. The hot-corner that kept catching me out can be switched off with Settings > Multitasking > Hot Corner.

I’d like to keep the Dash onscreen because it saves me one click, but that’s just personal taste (laziness?).

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#2

The dash pops up with the win/super key. Easier for me than moving the mouse to the upper left corner to click then center bottom to select.

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#3

@computersavvy I use that sometimes, but it’s an extra keypress. Maybe installing Plank would work, provided it doesn’t spoil the rest of the interface.

#4

You could install dash-to-dock.

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#5

Would it mess anything else up? I really like Gnome as it is now.

#6

It just adds a permanent dock with the same contents as the dash.

It is an extension so if it breaks something else you can just disable or remove it.

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#7

Looks like source code on Git which requires the dreaded compilation which never works for me.

#8

You can install it from the gnome extension store.

Alternatively, I am not sure about F35 but on F34 it is packaged as gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock

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#9

naaahh !
it should read Gnome-41
:wink:

#10

I got distracted by the options for Downloads and Homepage and didn’t see the obvious On/Off switch. There are at least four available:
dash-to-plank - not available for Wayland.
floating dock (fmoreira) - not available for Gnome-41.
dash-to-dock - not available for Gnome-41.

Floating dock (sun_wang) - Looks promising, I’ve installed it and will see how it goes. Thanks!

#11

Attention: not all extensions in the Fedora 35 repositories are really compatible with Gnome 41. Fedora 35 is an excellent product again.

#12

I’ve tried loads of distributions and stuck with Ubuntu Budgie for a few years as it was quick and attractive and importantly had rapid and un-patronising support. I abandoned it for Fedora-34 temporarily after two successive versions where the installer had a bug (that’s scary!). Fedora has an interface which is as modern as Ubuntu-vanilla and as fast as Ubuntu-Budgie.

Hard luck - you’re stuck with me now as I really like Fedora!

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