Using Linux at work - KDE Edition

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This is an update on the Linux at work series I started a while ago! At the time, I was using elementary OS on a Huawei matebook 13, to work as a Product Owner. Since then, remote work became a lot more prevalent, and I also changed distros, and laptops, so let's see how I'm making Linux and KDE work as my primary OS, on my laptop, and desktop!

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What I do

Let's begin with what I do: I'm a product owner, which means I'm basically a specification writer, tester, and planner all at once. I have to plan our development sprints in advance, write the specifications that our developers will follow to code what we need on our apps and websites, and work with our graphics designer to make nice mockups of the new features.

This means I need a versatile system that can let me multitask easily, and has a wide variety of applications.

What I use at home

So there are 2 parts for what I use: I work from home 3 days a week, and at the office the other 2 days. Which means I have 2 setups: one with my laptop, and one with my desktop.

Let's start with the one you guys might be more familiar with: the desktop.

It's the same hardware I use to run the channel: my Slimbok Kymera desktop, with a ryzen 7 5800X CPU, an RTX 3070, 32Gb of RAM, and 2Tb of SSD. It's plugged in to my LG 35' ultrawide, with a 1440p resolution and 100hz refresh rate. On top of that, I use an MX Master 2S, and the slimbook RGB Keyboard.

In terms of software, the desktop runs Manjaro KDE. It's heavily customized: I use latte dock to add a dock at the bottom of the screen, and a top panel with the applications menu, a global menu bar, the date and time, and the indicators.

I use the Edna theme for Kvantum and plasma, with the inverse-blue icons, and I switched my titlebar buttons to have close and minimize on the left, and maximize on the right.

This layout is great on an ultrawide screen like this one: all my apps are centered on the dock, so they're super easy to reach, and if the ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAYN4Y2dew