Acronyms within acronyms!

General NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Oil Modeling Environment

As a ThinkPad aesthetics enthusiast, I squint.

Did you check if there is a bios setting related to suspend, and that it’s set properly?

Thanks for the suggestion! It could sound like the timing might be a bit unfortunate, though: https://planet.kde.org/nate-graham-2023-11-25-this-week-in-kde-the-plasma-6-feature-freeze-approaches/

It’s the purpose of the laptops where I work :D We run everything on development servers, so the laptops just run your editor of choice, basically.

SSH into a stronger machine.

I don’t think it does. It didn’t when I checked a year ago, at least. You couldn’t get live previews on the workspace pop-up.

Can you point me to the feature you refer to? If it really does this, it would be a major game changer for me.

On Gnome,

• Workspace Matrix: provides a customizable n x m workspace grid, and a customizable pop-up that shows live preview of all workspaces and their windows (incl. e.g. video playing).
• Forge: windows tiling

(screenshot from Workspace Matrix extension site, not mine)

In combination, these two features allow me very quick overview of everything I have open, presented in an ordered fashion, allowing quick, keyboard-driven application change.

I’m not aware that the exact features of Workspace Matrix are reproduced by anything in any other DE.

I have the same, but Netflix is then a miserable experience on my 4K TV.

Get an older ThinkPad.

Get a bigger ThinkPad.

If your machine support it. Aren’t gen 7 Intel chips and earlier unsupported?

At work, we use Racetrack, if that counts. It works quite well.

keyd is amazing, wonderful, easy, feature-rich, and an absolutely awesome gateway drug to the addiction of perfecting your keymap!

Warmly recommended!

Also, well-supported by kind people :)

Ah, sorry, now I get it! I didn’t read properly. And using KDE Activities would be a bit to overkill perhaps.

I did. I wanted more. I wanted ln -sf.

Why over-complicated? I’m genuinely curious, as I think it sounds pretty cool that you can install apps from different package managers in containers, but export them to use them in your main environment.

Theming, controlled one central place.

This goes for both Gnome (GTK, Qt, Gnome Shell) and Sway (GTK, Qt, Sway, Rofi, Waybar…)

Sway allows you to assign apps to workspaces.

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid sounds very interesting, I think. It’s in alpha now. Have a read about their package manager - it’s kinda meta, allowing you to use other package managers in parallel.