nvidia-graphics-drivers VS shell

If you use hybrid graphics mode with an Nvidia card while the laptop screen turned off, it gets very laggy. It's a known issue with the Nvidia driver; https://github.com/pop-os/nvidia-graphics-drivers/issues/61. Switch to Nvidia graphics mode (open the quick settings on the top right, click the battery icon, then Nvidia graphics) when you're plugged in and it should work correctly.

Let's hope testing to start on https://github.com/pop-os/nvidia-graphics-drivers :)

Oh yeah? You know what else works out of the box? macOS. I have yet to find the mythical restrictions that some oldheads keep talking about. The usability is better too. By far. The only things that work better on Ubuntu e.g. Docker, can be offloaded to a VM and don't have to run on my personal machine. I don't take Windows serious for anything but .NET development and gaming. I don't care about out of the box compatibility. I don't mind installing an NVidia tool that handles the driver updates as long as it works well. pop_os is just not it: https://github.com/pop-os/nvidia-graphics-drivers/issues/135 Which takes us back to my last argument about the prayers befor every update.

You can keep up with the availability of testing branches here https://github.com/pop-os/nvidia-graphics-drivers

sudo apt install git node-typescript make git clone https://github.com/pop-os/shell.git cd shell

If you use gnome, I can recommend Pop-Shell

https://github.com/pop-os/shell

Pop Shell is what I use, and it works really well (not available on the GNOME extensions store, get it from here, installation instructions are present near the bottom). Forge is another great option. If you want to completely change the look of Gnome, and have a completely different experience, try Material Shell, another awesome tiling extension.

I quite like Pop!_OS Shell (https://github.com/pop-os/shell) for tiling on Gnome, it feels like the right compromise for me of tiling while still having access to a full DE. Seems that installing it on other distribution should be easy enough.

Is there a config of speed in PopShell https://github.com/pop-os/shell/tree/b5acccefcaa653791d25f70a22c0e04f1858d96e where we can adjust the speed of tiling? Just saying that extention like impatient only adjust the speed of animation, not the actual tiling or windows pops up (example would be archive manager pop-up).

One of my best friends uses the Pop Shell [1] GNOME extension to bring in an i3-like experience. It seems to lag behind a few GNOME versions, but system76 has instructions on how to use it on other distributions if you don't want to use Pop!_OS [2]

[1] - https://github.com/pop-os/shell

I am actually a pretty happy GNOME user -- granted, it is due to being able to tweak my experience with GNOME extensions and managing the aspects I care about with dconf settings managed with Home-Manager/Nix.

These are the GNOME extensions I find critical to me enjoying the UI:

- PopOS' Shell[0] for tiling windows

- Just Perfection[1] for making the appearance even more minimal/removing elements I don't use

I think if the GNOME team removed extension support altogether, I would absolutely switch to KDE. But for now, I get an extremely minimal desktop, and I really like it.

That being said, I typically live in my terminal, so I don't spend much time actually using the tools provided with my desktop environment.

(Just want to vocalize that there is at least one person who enjoys GNOME's approach of visually staying out of my way, but giving me a robust backend when I need it)

[0] https://github.com/pop-os/shell

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3843/just-perfection/

Just started playing with Pop Shell under GNOME, and I can see the allure.