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I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it's the package manager.

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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There isn't a hardware panel nor a proper task manager nor a GUI registery editor.

[–] meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well Linux doesn't have a registry, so an editor would also not exist, to be fair.

[–] lastweakness@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dconf editor is kinda like regedit for GNOME apps ig?

[–] meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a hand wavy way, yes. You are just editing the settings of one suite of software, not really an OS "registry". Closest to that in Linux is editing /etc, but even then, not all software is configured there.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not for long if Lennart has anything to say about it, I'm sure.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree on the task manager. I like the KDE Plasma monitor application for instance. Very convenient way to sigterm or sigkill.

[–] noughtnaut 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, and if you're not on KDE then htop will do just fine.

[–] supert@lemmy.sdfeu.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sLLiK@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Or even better, btop