It's going to depend on what desktop environment you are using, the default Gnome launcher has a huge full screen launcher setup.

there may be gnome extensions for another look.

Gnome is not the same look, but similar in its oversized UI.

I hate it.:)

I tend to use some other quick launchers. or a simple nested applications menu.

I am reminded of the ability MANY years ago to write the kernel file directly to a floppy disk, or start of a hard drive and somehow being able to boot that way.

I just can't recall how I did it, or WHY I did it.

Back when the kernel would fit on a floppy disk. I am truly showing my age.

6 yr old grandson found a box of old floppy disks and was asking what they were. He started stacking them up making card houses and roads for his matchbox cars. Glad he got some use out of those recycled AOL floppies.

I have 5+ DEs on my pop_os install, you don't lose files in your users home.

check to see howuch space your log files are using.

to prevent it from happening ..

I would consider 20GB for / to be too small for long term desktop use.

and with just 470GB for /home, I would not split the two up.

ProtonVPN supports the OpenVPN client , so you can import your proton VPN settings in to that, no need for the official proton VPN GUI client.

However you do lose some of the more advanced features of proton VPN.

tip: don't install fish or whatever, change your default shell, THEN uninstall fish because you don't like it.

Change your default shell back first.

I have seen way too many support posts where people paint their self I to a corner doing that.

or just don't change the default shell.

run fish as needed, then exit back to bash when done.

I have

you mean like the various CAD software that exists?

what tool to use can depend on what you are drawing.

I have seen this used in school situations with 3+ seats per PC.

that can add up when dealing with a dozen+ PCs.

For home use, not much a benefit, but I did have it setup years ago for the grandkids.

I thought KDE was working on some cross platform programs, but I can't recall the name of the project or the tools, they had a file manager, and a few other things. I thought it included a basic terminal emulator.

I may be thinking of the following project.

https://mauikit.org/apps/

it shows screen shots for 'station' on mobile, but I can't find a .APK for it.

Been playing with that Bazannite (sp?) Variant, it works fine, but i am still undecided if learning the ins and puts of it are worth the switch from my Pop_os install.

There was a little bit research and learning to do some tasks, but nothing surprising.

it does seem it boots much slower than my pop_os install, but I think I have it installed on an internal Hybrid HDD that i not yet replaced with a SSD, so that may be the cause.

pop_os boots amazingly fast, not sure what they do to it.

and having to reboot to get stuff updated/installed is a bit annoying, the ability to roll back is the trade off I guess.

However I can't really think of a time that I needed to roll back, perhaps I am just lucky. So the entire roll back feature is something that I don't know if I will ever actually use.

good luck.

make proper backups before you try messing with partitions. Have windows reinstall media made ahead of time, just in case things go badly.

what you want to do is possible, but mistakes happen.

And does uninstalling a flatpak app also uninstall flatpak dependencies that came with it?

from what I have seen, NO it does not do so automatically. there is a flatpak command option to clean out unused runtimes, and another to remove user data.

delete app data after uninstalling?

you either manually delete the data, or there's some flatpak command option, or you can use a tool such as warehouse which is available as a flatpak.

other posts list the specific commands.

for testing, and no, no issues at all with the various dot files.

Cluttered app menus, and an occasional "default open with app" setting changed is about the only issues.

you could use MXlinux and it's remaster tools/feature to build your own custom USB/iso.

MXlinux makes such a task rather easy.

remove stuff you don't need to get it as small as you desire.

there is an odd bug with the steamdeck where when it wakes from sleep it goes back to sleep.

I think it's seeing a time difference greater than the auto sleep timeout, so it wakes up, thinks it's been idle for 5, or 15 or whatever min, so it thinks it's time to go into sleep mode.

you wake it up a second time, And it does not see the time difference trigger, so it stays awake.

I am currently testing this by having auto sleep turned OFF. I now manually sleep as needed and so far , I have not seen it go back to sleep after waking up.

SO FAR..

No idea on the other issues.

why does the sidebar i am looking at showing '230 subscribers' ? Perhaps that is just on the lemmy instance i am on. (sh.itjust.works)

if you wait for a sale, there may be a big rush on orders, and it may take longer to get one, once you do order.

look at the old sale prices to see if the discount is worth it for you for any potential delays.

determine is the XFCE system is using sddm, lightdm, gdm3, there are other login managers as well, but those 3 are the most common.

you can then setup the same login manager kn the other system.

unless they are the same and it's just a scaling issue due to the monitor resolution.

then I guess you could try the alternative login managers, and see if any look better.

but they have an APK for the file manager 'index'. so that's what's confused me.

Be interesting to see what Steam Deck Distribution alternatives are going to be popping up.

Seeing a few interesting feature in this project, I may have to dig out my other desktop to attempt to make my own SteamBox.