A Week with GNOME - Day 6 - by maggie

Unforeseen consequences

Hi!

If you think this is going to be a terribly standard run-of-the-mill post about how much I've been using GNOME for the past week, you're wrong. This is more of a life post, if you don't care, maybe don't read this one. Of course, I'll talk a bit about GNOME and how it affected my circumstances today as well.

what's up

Today marks the day I come home from the bike tour. It was extremely tiring but I feel that the adventure of it all was very much so worth the effort. (met a cat)

Still, after all that I was so excited to finally go home. Turns out the huge storm that happened on Wednesday has had a larger impact than I've anticipated. I came back home, only to find out that my house hasn't had electricity for three days at that point.

It was okay, after all I got a bit used to the lack of connection to the outside, but it WAS a little frustrating to have yet another roadblock in the way, I guess.

What happened next?

I decided to go visit my grandmother, after all, she wanted to know about the trip as well, and with me I took my drive and my younger brother's laptop, which I'm writing this on.

Of course, this install is still running GNOME, and that's what it'll be doing until the end of this challenge. So, let's see how well this 10 year old laptop works running this DE.

Day 6:

GNOME on this laptop runs somewhat poorly, which is to be expected. Animations are occasionally laggy and programs tend to be a bit more sluggish than on KDE. I didn't expect this large of an impact, but here we are.

What do I feel about this?

Honestly, I can't wait to try Plasma 6.1, which (to my surprise) already came out for Fedora a day or so ago. The issues I've been having all seem to have been resolved, so I'll be free to try and run my GNOME workflow on a system running KDE.

Be prepared to read about that as well, I plan to document how that works.