u/No_Neighborhood_8896

Hello folks. I've been using it for a while, at least a full year. One thing that I noticed recently, after taking some time off, is that Zen is working very differently on different environments.

What do I mean? It's somewhat a lackluster performance mixed with poor visual integration that led me to take some time off. I was using my own Debian with a manually installed Budgie Desktop, and Zen wasn't good at all. Before that, on Nobara, it was kinda okay. Not as good as it was in my days in Aurora, but it would do well.

In Debian I ended up trying Brave and found it was good. But then I went for Zorin and decided to try Zen again, since Brave wasn't good enough for me.

Holy shit. I've never seen any browser run so good. Not only did Zen integrate perfectly to the theming and the visuals in Zorin, but it's also running so smoothly and doing a perfect smooth scrolling, something I've not seen any browser deliver in years. There's something about Zorin, it seems, that Zen finds everything it needs to deliver all its functions properly.

And that gets me to the second point: even though sometimes chromium-based browsers load webpages faster, gecko-based browsers deliver a more linear performance, with less inconsistency or spikes overall.

The thing, though, is the inconsistency across-platforms. Specially in a browser that's still in its younger years. Many many users would rush to judge it on the fact of performance factors that, it seems, depend too much on the distros. Specially since a huge share of Zen are web powerusers in general who'll look deep for another browser and be unsatisfied with Edge or Chrome. Let's not kid ourselves: Edge isn't Internet Explorer 9. It's quite good, so to be unsatisfied with it it's likely that a fluctuation of performance like the one I've seen among different Linux distros will be enough to make people think Zen isn't that good. Specially since a lot of Zen users are Linux users as well.

Being it a Flatpak-only, shouldn't the performance be more consistent? It's crazy that getting several versions of Firefox across dozens of distros (normal, snaps, flatpak, ESR, etc) I've never seen such a variation as I've seen with Zen.

But, hell, if you are unsure about Zen and have spare time? Try it with Zorin. It's unlike anything I've seen in years. The perfect smooth scrolling alone is something I've not seen in many many years.

Estou me mudando e preciso de uma dica. Como faço pra levar ao menos uma das minhas guitarras?

Tenho um case Gator. Se eu usar ele é suficiente? Alguma aérea é melhor? Sei que todas tem voos pra onde vou, então dá pra escolher.

Hoje em dia ainda é comum acontecer? Pergunto porque quem sabe posso ir com uma não tão boa assim, e deixar a minha melhor pra buscar de carro no futuro. É uma Ledur bem rara, não quero correr o risco porque é insubstituível.

There are plenty cheap laptops offering modern Celerons with either 4gb or 8gb soldered RAM.

One good thing about it is that they have huge battery life, like old netbooks used to have. But is there anything that I can safely run on them to make them okay for office work, including meetings and other things like that?

My uses are mainly writing, reading and doing meetings. Occasionally, I'll also plug it into something to do a presentation.

Most of my computer life is still done on a desktop. Even more now, since notebooks are too expensive in comparison (at least here in Brazil), and I'm old and used to having a desktop instead, even though I do little or no serious gaming at the moment.

I'm on Linux full-time, but I did have a notebook with 8gb of RAM, a traditional Dell. Went to install another 8gb in it and it seems that I killed it in the process. Since I only need a laptop for reading and light uses, I'm thinking perhaps I can solve my problem for cheap, while also having a smaller portable device that has longer battery life (since it's not fast at all lol), instead of carrying around a full 15'6 heavy laptop with 1h30 worth of battery that does nothing for me and also is big enough that I can't use it properly in an airplane or bus trip.

I'm in love with Budgie ever since I found it. Used in Fedora, in Ubuntu, then manually installed it in Debian and now I'm using it in Fedora 44.

I do really enjoy the looks and I'd rather use the KDE apps and have them working well.

But the thing is: there are some glitches that shouldn't be on a final stable release. And some things just aren't well implemented and have broken the way that I used it.

My impressions on the first 72h trying to set it up:

a) The Display settings are weird as hell. In 10.9 there were no way to actually do panels on the second monitor, and it constantly would lose the settings for the dual monitor setup and only turn one of them on. Now, not only am I losing the settings everytime I wake my laptop up, but I don't even have enough settings to work with. The first one: I cannot set the main display. Which means, for usage as a laptop with a second bigger monitor, that many functions will remain locked on the smaller laptop screen. Not a huge deal for me, since I bought my second monitor mirroring the ppi and brightness of the laptop screen, but it will be heavily bad for someone who uses a second higher DPI monitor and barely wants to look at the main monitor. Or someone with a desktop multi-monitor setup that has the system always detecting the wrong one as the "main" monitor. It works also poorly enough that the notifications don't appear properly, since somehow they end up at a lower corner with half of their height out of bounds.

b) Setting panels work too bad now. There could be a bright side: now when I move the Budgie settings window to another screen, it allows me to create panels for that screen, which I couldn't do in 10.9. The issue, though? Not a single created panel actually goes where it should, they don't fill the whole length or height, even though they don't allow the apps to occuppy it, which means that it understands how tall or wide the screen is, it just doesn't work well filling it. Even Raven opens wrongly: if you put a side panel and it leaves 40 or 50px unoccupied, when you open Raven it also doesn't fill those pixels. Mind you that toggling dock mode doesn't solve it. Also, any panel other than the default one is created with the wrong positioning: there's always 4 or 5px that get "eaten" out of borders. And, to top all of that, there are several bugs in settings, like if you move the panel or change any setting, most of the times you have to close the settings entirely before being able to add something to that panel. You might click to add, and choose what you want, but nothing happens. Also, and it's very important: since I lose the settings all the time, if I create a panel on the second screen, every time it resets the dual monitor settings the panel on that screen goes to the main screen and everything ends up screwed again.

c) Many addons are gone, and some apps that were brought in don't work well. System monitor sometimes isn't working properly. Discover has some glitches. But also some changes to panel elements that were made basically killed one of the main things I loved on Budgie: the Workspace Switcher. On 10.9, it used to show the windows opened in each desktop, which meant that people who use it could do away with other things like Task Icons. Now, it's basically blank and useless, instead of the powerhouse it used to be: all icons of all workspaces available, basically multiplying the control and the overview I had when working with three or four workspaces filled with things open in them. I could see the icons, click on them, drag apps to other workspaces whenever I wanted, and always see what was where.

d) And to add to that, the changes on keyboard shortcuts: the shortcuts to move windows to another screen aren't working. Which means having to use the mouse more. Which sucks if I have to have a Icon Task List + a workspace switcher at the same time eating away at my panel space. Specially since now I'm stuck with having a panel on the smaller laptop screen instead of having it at my main 1080p one.

Other than that, I did find the update makes it perform even better and everything is very stable. Also, things look very good.

But I feel that if those things don't get patched up (or if I don't find workarounds), perhaps I'm bound to return to 10.9 to have the workflow I used to have before.

I'm not sure those changes are meant to be, or are entirely on Budgie, or if they are bugs on the Fedora implementation. I'm using Fedora 44 on a Dell Inspiron 15 3476.

TLDR: The Workspace Switcher change broke my entire workflow around Budgie. Panels don't position properly and the Display Settings is very bad and doesn't hold the settings. Might have to go back to 10.9.

Gente, tô prestes a ser nomeado como professor em uma federal, DE. Meu sonho.

Ao mesmo tempo, tenho convites pra trabalhar num instituto como consultor recebendo pela UNESCO.

Ai me surgiu a dúvida: que coisas eu ainda posso receber que são compatíveis com a dedicação exclusiva? Ou é melhor só ficar com o salário e não fazer nada além disso?

Eu nunca estudei em federal, não entendo nada sobre. Sou das sociais. Tenho trabalhos com instituições, com terceiro setor, consultoria, várias coisas. Penso tbm em trazer bolsas e oportunidades pros alunos da minha universidade, já que agora fui aprovado nesse concurso e esses trampos não são mais necessários pra eu sobreviver.

Mas se pudesse ter uma renda a mais, não me faria mal também. Ou então integrar isso nas minhas horas e me liberar pra viajar e fazer atividades vinculadas a essas redes de pesquisa.

Aceito qualquer dica. Ajudem um principiante!!