A Mac user’s adventures in Linux land

I’ve long be Linux curious, and my wish finally came true over the weekend when my son installed Fedora and GNOME on an old ThinkPad for me. As I understand it, Fedora is the name of one of the Linux distributions, a.k.a. distro, and GNOME is the name of the desktop environment. The distro is the guts of the thing, and the desktop environment is how you interact with it. I should add that this is GNOME 50, the most recent version. If you check the Wikipedia article, you’ll see that GNOME had gone through some major revisions over the years. This one appeals to me because it reminds me of the Mac interface I’m used to, but doesn’t wind up being a clunky version of it. A three-finger swipe down brings up the equivalent of the dock, Spotlight and mission control, and a second three-finger swipe down brings up the equivalent of launchpad showing all the apps plus the desktops. It was pleasantly surprised to find that it also looks pretty nice. I obviously had preconceived notions that…