GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) is the default web browser for GNOME desktop environment. Although the popularity of it is not growing significantly, it's one of my must-have browsers. The reason behind that is because it's the few WebKit based browser on Linux still maintained, comes particularly handy when testing websites.
GNOME desktop has IBus integration by default, to set up Zhuyin/Bopomofo (注音) input method is quite easy. On Arch based Linux, there is an AUR package called ibus-chewing which is a Chinese Zhuyin/Bopomofo engine for IBus. The engine uses libchewing(酷音) under the hood, it's a popular input library in Taiwan.
A lot of extensions stopped working after GNOME 41, this is due to the maintainer didn't mark their extensions as compatible with newer version. But that doesn't mean it won't work after the update. To force the extensions to run even it's outdated, we'll need to do some tweaking in gsettings.
By default, Show all applications is bond to Super+A in GNOME desktop. And cannot be changed to Super L or Super R since it conflicts with Overview. To force GNOME to open applications menu with Super, there is an extension called Show Applications Instead Of Workspaces.
There are tens of thousands of extensions provided by the community to empower the GNOME desktop environment. In order to install them via GNOME Extensions on Arch based Linux, we'll need some AUR (Arch User Repository) packages for managing extensions and browser integration.
For Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora and other Linux distros using GNOME will probably face an issue that switching windows with Alt-Tab is really slow. That's because it has a 150 milliseconds delay by default. To remove the delay, there is an extension called remove-alt-tab-delay. It supports GNOME 40+ and legacy versions.
On Linux distros (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux) using GNOME as DE will encounter an issue where GNOME's key bindings conflict with IDEs'. So when pressing Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Down on your text editor it simply doesn't work. To fix this, we'll covering how to edit gsettings in both CLI and GUI.
