bedHedd
November 21, 2020, 4:46am
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I think it might be GNOME. I’ve had more issues GNOME then the other DE’s. GNOME refuses to let me change the overlapping point between 2 monitors. I learned after switching to Cinnamon.
If you are curious, I documented it here
Goodbye Gnome, you cpu intensive, ram hogging, head ache inducing, shell crashing, extension breaking, piece of work.
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https://forum.level1techs.com/t/official-post-your-desktop-mobile-screenshot-thread/74865/617?u=bedhedd
Hello Cinnamon
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New setup
panel settings
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Applets
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Themes
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The old setup
Before making the switch from my heavily customized gnome of
dash to panel
Shell Tile
random walls
arc menu
Recent issues
My desktop would frequently crash whenever I ran FAHClient. Looking at the journalctl the logs were super long and I got errors that included
Stack trace for context 0x558da954a890 ==Oct 11 11:01:08
Master-of-Cooling gnome-shell
[51291]: Attempting to run a JS callback during garbage collection. This is most likely caused by destroying a Clutter actor or GTK widget with ::destroy signal connected, or using the destroy>
as well as
kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:26:00.1: spurious response 0x3:0x0, last cmd=0x470700
When I searched this error, I found
Attempting to run a JS callback during garbage collection. This is most likely caused by destroying a Clutter actor or GTK widget with ::destroy signal connected, or using the destro>Oct 09 17:36:32 Master-of-Cooling gnome-shell[230104]: The offending callback was SourceFunc().
Web searches
These were pages I found when I searched my errors
this made me realize I had too many shell extensions.
The epiphany
In a club discord/on this forum, someone had recommended cinnamon as a DE that was similar to windows with very little resource demands. When I looked at screenshots, I realized that cinnamon did exactly what I had customized gnome for. There was a mention that cinnamon was less resource intensive than gnome.
I followed these instructions to install cinnamon on my laptop and desktop
After all the headache I went through for past versions of Gnome, I decided to make the switch. I think I tried Cinnamon out back when I was using antegros. I did not …