u/dotSHAB

▲ 9 r/pop_os

It may be that my opinion divide or that I'm totally wrong, so I need to understand.

Hi everyone, OS user since few month only. I used Ubuntu during on year on my laptop, and as a friend taught me about this OS, I installed Pop_OS from scratch.

The first thing that came to my mind was that Pop_OS is now not on GNOME anymore, it changed to COSMIC recently. I had a lot of gestures that were a pleasure to use on Ubuntu, and some key ones were not natively on Pop_OS since COSMIC (for example "windows+1" putting the focus on the 1st app in my desktop tab, "windows+2" to the second, etc.)

I read in few posts that the change to COSMIC was recent, and you have to be patient to get the stabliest version of the OS. And I agree, with time passing features would come. So I found some by-passing methods to be able to get these shortcuts while waiting if some day they come.

But recently I wanted to install some precise packages, like caffeine or touchegg, and I really struggle to get them working. When I was using Ubuntu with GNOME, I feel that I had way less proplems while installing packages (most knonw distro, so a lot of help and documentation).

Here is my point : does the fact that Pop_OS created COSMIC to leave GNOME does them a disservice ? Or am I just not installing properlly my packages, and this has nothing to do with GNOME/COSMIC ?

Sorry if some of what I said was totally wrong, I could be not understanding what are my real issues

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