Yet another help to choose distro

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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After 3 months running Linux and Fedora/Gnome for the first time I got out my old laptop and I installed Lubuntu, Ubuntu/Unity and Ubuntu/Gnome and I just could not stand them.

Gnome is super intuitive to use, I never thought I would replace desktop icons but superkey + typing is super fast and easy to launch programs.

I also prefer dnf from the apt and apt-get mess I experienced in Ubuntu but that may be because I got used to dnf.

I got some bugs and a couple of crashes and freezes on Fedora but that is the price to pay for faster updates.

Best of all, I have learned so much and continue to keep learning, I got comfortable with the cli and ssh and I would throw away my Windows SSD if it wasn’t for Adobe.

Best of luck

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In my ~/Desktop folder, I have a bunch of entries that show up on my desktop as icons I can click an they execute some program. For example, this entry executes “ssh remote” in an xterm when I click it. I have no idea how this is supposed to work, just that it does allow desktop icons under gnome.

$ cat ~/Desktop/remote.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Remote
GenericName=Terminal
Comment=ssh to remote
Exec=xterm -e ssh remote
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=/home/user/svg/remote.svg
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
$ cat ~/svg/remote.svg
<svg width="48" height="48" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
 <!-- Created with SVG-edit - http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/ -->
 <g>
  <title>Layer 1</title>
  <rect id="svg_2" height="38" width="38" y="5" x="5" stroke-linecap="null" stroke-linejoin="null" stroke-dasharray="null" stroke-width="0" stroke="#000000" fill="#70fff0"/>
  <text xml:space="preserve" text-anchor="middle" font-family="serif" font-size="24" id="svg_1" y="32" x="24" stroke-linecap="null" stroke-linejoin="null" stroke-dasharray="null" stroke-width="0" stroke="#000000" fill="#000000">remote</text>
 </g>
</svg>