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Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Always good to try out a few distros before settling in for the long run. As much as I love Mint, there are always cases where one distro has issues with your hardware where another doesn't.

Copy paste did take a while to get used to.

Which part, the highlight-middle click part or something else?

Also the default screenshot tool doesn’t automatically put the snip on the clipboard.

In Mint? You've made me realize that would be convenient for me so I looked into it, I believe copying straight to clipboard is a default keyboard shortcut option I didn't know about.

[–] Tantheiel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes ctrl c / v doesn't work and it's a combination of ctrl, super and C.
Que confused "what's the super key"

Turns out that's what the windows key on my keyboard is called. So far only when I was messing with the terminal.

The screenshot tool in Brazzite. I think it's called spectre.

[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ctrl C doesn't work in the terminal because that's how you terminate programs. You need to use Ctrl shift c, control shift v etc.

[–] Tantheiel@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yep. Learning a lot of common inputs on Windows does and does not apply with Linux. Lots of muscle memory to retrain myself on.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

That's true.

On one hand, there are often ways to change the settings to make things more like how they were on Windows,

On the other hand, sometimes there's a good reason for it to be different, so I always try to check why it's different before changing it. An example is some window managers putting the taskbar panel at the top of the screen or on the side instead of the bottom (top panel is more convenient with a mouse, side panel takes up less space on a wide/landscape screen).