GNOME 3

For a while, I've been thinking about a switch to Linux.  I use it in work on a daily basis, but on my own machine, I have Windows. I used Windows because I like playing computer games. But after buying Nintendo Switch, I was playing less and less. After watching YouTube videos about news in Linux evolution (this one is very interesting) and deciding to learn gtkmm, I have installed Ubuntu 19.04.

I have chosen Ubuntu because it is a system used in my work. After spending one day with Ubuntu 19.04 I saw, that it had a strange bug: if I have logged out and tried to log in again, the system would freeze. It was a small annoyance. But I was eager to learn something really new, use distribution used by GNOME developers and I have decided to switch to Fedora!

Fedora was a little more demanding to configure: I had to enable the non-free repository and swaps. Moreover, rclone browser's configure button was not working. It was complaining about missing environment variable. The fix was easy! I have only changed /usr/share/applications/rclone-browser.desktop file to contain

Exec=env TERMINAL=/usr/bin/gnome-terminal /usr/bin/rclone-browser

instead of

Exec=/usr/bin/rclone-browser

Update: The helpful folks at Fedora said, that it is better to define a TERMINAL variable in ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile file (see this bug).

My first two weeks with Fedora have passed and I like my new system. The only thing which I miss from Windows is Legimi app for synchronizing Kindle with Legimi's subscription.