Joliflower@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoShare your best DE tricks, shortcuts and apps youve found!message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down11
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minus-squareCorroded@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 months agoBit of an obvious one but try out new DEs in a VM before installing it on hardware. It is a pretty big time saver especially if you are ricing it. Other than that looking at extensions for file managers you use. There’s some neat ones and the Arch Wiki is a good place to find them
minus-squareNik282000@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoVMs and LXC containers are the tits for testing new distros, operating systems or just new software.
Bit of an obvious one but try out new DEs in a VM before installing it on hardware. It is a pretty big time saver especially if you are ricing it.
Other than that looking at extensions for file managers you use. There’s some neat ones and the Arch Wiki is a good place to find them
VMs and LXC containers are the tits for testing new distros, operating systems or just new software.