Lutris seems to offer a lot of easy setups for games, but I want to use some windows apps from my own installation files, and it seems to be not very intuitive

Hey, the moment it becomes less than the best, I’m out lol. I guess it’s goodbye chromium.

It’s actually not what I was using; I was using nativefier to make webapp using electron. I guess I’m just gonna ditch all these ideas and just stick to Firefox and that’s it.

Yep, it’s kinda the last straw. I don’t do ads, period.

Nice! Thanks.

I have Vivaldi installed mayhap I’ll give it a try.

Yeah clearly that’s the choice. It’s not a huge deal obviously I’m just using the sites in Firefox I was just hoping chromium was a possibility.

The thing is, we (you know, us) are very dependent upon Firefox and their management has really exhibited some stubbornness in the recent years with regard to some issues that the user-base really don’t agree with. No I’m not citing examples I just have encountered this more than once or twice in the recent years with a variety of issues.

Yeah I saw it.

Ah ok. So they just want to eliminate the entire concept of ad blocking. Kinda desperate act.

Hmm Mobian. I’ll have to try that.

I just ordered a tab a7 lite for myself for some casual use and I read in advance it could be owned with a variety of things to the best of my understanding. I’m hoping it won’t be too much trouble.

You could get a decent lightweight netbook type machine that’s maybe under a decade old and only have to shell out like $30 and you could Linux it just fine. Until not long ago I was using a 13 year old Toshiba laptop and it was kicking ass. I only replaced it because for sheer cpu power I just needed something faster for certain things.

I had Ubuntu on two of my ASUS transformer pads and I finally caved and went back to Android-x86 on the one that I use as a tablet more frequently. I really wish someone would make a proper full fledged touch distro for tablets, and at the same time I totally get why nobody has gone to the effort yet. Android kinda has it covered enough. I tried Bliss but some elements of the OS just would not play nice.

I think if any DE is close enough to what a tablet should have it’s Unity, and I don’t see anyone trying to bring that up to speed with Wayland etc. but it seems to be the best candidate short of making a DE from scratch - which might just be the best idea when all is said and done.

Standard scroll. Like with a mouse wheel or two finger swipe or edge swipe on a touchpad.

Nope. Launches the app. Tried a lot of times.

I don’t know where I said they were similar. I mean, they are both using gnome in my situation and Pop is based on Ubuntu. That’s the extent of it.

Ok well, that’s telling me to stop wanting to do what I’m trying to do, and instead do something else. I mean…. Do you see how that’s not an answer at all.

You’re allowed to just say you don’t know how or if it can be done at all. But telling me just don’t do that is altogether pointless and just responding just to respond. Why do so many people do this and think it’s perfectly useful, I’ll never understand.

That’s a helpful suggestion thank you! Sincerely. Let me try to clarify: with any docks that I have used (dash to dock, plank, and whatever comes by default in Ubuntu which I think is a modified plank, same with elementary), when you fill up the length of the visible dock area and add more icons, they are hidden. You can then use your mousewheel / touchpad scroll to slide the icons so as to scroll to the hidden ones.

Now, my touchscreen works fine and I can do things like scroll web pages, tap icons to launch, tap fields in an application and even type in the on-screen touch keyboard.

But what I cannot do is move the dock icons to scroll them along the dock to reveal the hidden ones that are past the dock’s end.

In theory since it’s a scrolling function, the intuitive thing would be to drag them with your finger using the touchscreen. But this doesn’t actually work. Clearly, it is not coded in the same way that most things are that respond to that kind of interaction.

I tried using a few dock applications and on a few distros. It doesn’t work anywhere.

So that’s my goal - to be able to drag/scroll the contents of the dock to get to the ones that are hidden past the end.

You “answered” by giving me parenthetical information and not actually even addressing the specific thing I asked. I just don’t understand why you’d bother doing that. Advice is free? Yeah it would be but that’s not what you did. You just said some things and ignored the very specific issue I’m having.

I can appreciate if someone tried to help but could not, but what you told me has nothing to do with my issue.

Also, I said no offense and I genuinely meant it. No need for name calling. This isn’t an attack it’s just I’m very confused by you.

Ok so your reply literally reads like an AI bot. No offense. I’m aware there are different dock setups - I never asked about that. You said maybe helpful to know what I’m working with - well I said pop and Ubuntu. This limitation has come up on numerous devices so it’s not device that’s the issue. Touch screen works fine it’s just the coding of the dock that treats it a certain way.

The problem is I want to slide the dock content when it takes up more than the length of the dock. Using mouse wheel / touchpad scroll works. That’s the way docks designed. But it doesn’t seem to consider touch screen dragging as scrolling for the purpose of this.

I was pretty clear in my post so I’m not sure why you even replied. I mean, I appreciate any help but that wasn’t just not helpful it was not even addressing my question.

Also, gnome-extensions is outdated and I’ve had crashes on the latest gnome version. I don’t think the extensions plugin been updated in quite some time.

Shocked, I tell you!