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They explicitly banned AI generated code from their extensions if that skews your mind.
I mean GNOME is…fine. I don’t use it, because if I wanted something that chewed up 3-5GB of RAM I’d just run Windows, but if you like GNOME, you do you.
This is Linux. It’s all about choice. Run what you like. It’s your goddamn computer. And that’s what we all love together.
Gnome uses around 1.6GB on my machine and runs a bit smoother than KDE (although last time I tested was 2½ years ago; so that may no longer be the case. I’m on a 240Hz panel aswell, so my experience may not be applicable to most users).
Since 4 months I use Gnome on a 100Hz display at work. At home I am on a 60Hz panel. I cannot justify buying a new display, because the older 60Hz has still better colors and automatic brightness, which isn’t very common, it seems.
But I want higher refresh rates now everywhere; a dilemma!
I’m using a Dell S2522HG, that I calibrated using a colorimeter. Best display I’ve ever had. Not sure if they sell it anymore as 24" panels seem to be dying out.
FUCK
pointless fighting
ALL MY HOMIES
recognize that choice is good and what works for some folk won’t work for others. some people want a highly polished experience right out of the box, even if it can’t be customized a ton, and that’s fine. some devs want a UI toolkit that is solid, polished and guarantees that your app will look the same no matter the user’s environment, and that’s fine.
(i use KDE btw)
Konqi is my favorite dragon
I like gnome
I admire your bravery to admit such a thing. You’re a fool, but a brave fool.
I also really like GNOME and was a diehard for a loong while but god damn Plasma6 is amazing and I don’t know if I can go back to GNOME. I swear KDE went from being one of the worst examples of UI (UX was always alright) design to one of the best.
Gnome I customize once, take a day, have some fun, and I’m done. Kde I customize at least once everyday. and always want to change something because of how simple it is to move/add/change stuff. I end up spending more time customizing than using my pc. I’ll prob swap back to kde at some point, but gnome extensions just remind me of cydia and feel good to use. I like opinionated extensions that ppl have ppl have put thought and development time in to, like the extensions are usually intutive and have gone through a lot of testing to get to they layout that they have. They just work.
Imma throw hands, respect my gnomies.
Fucking love KDE dude. Plasma6 is my jam.
I use niri btw
I want to, but I miss the top panel the way gnome-shell has it implemented.
Is it possible to run niri instead of mutter together with gnome-shell?
you are an awesome person
i did use awesome many months, maybe a year or two ago, but nowadays i’m a niri person
Kde looks unpolished. Always reminds me of windows.
I don’t know why, but gnome is just attractive in a way that makes me want to suck gnome dick
In times like these when lots of people who have only ever known Windows are looking for a new place to land with minimal friction, “reminds me of Windows” is a good thing.
“Unpolished” and “like Windows 7” is exactly what I want. I don’t want to be distracted by my DE, it should just work.
Good that we have choices, no? (I use GNOME btw)
Unless your choice is not to use systemd.
I don’t hate GNOME but I dislike GTK a lot
I hate GNOME not because it looks bad (though some parts do) but because of their ways of doing stuff. Best example imo is libadwaita and client side decorations.
For people who don’t know what libadwaita means here - GNOME by default does not support one of the most common way gui apps do tray icons, you need an extension for it (which is obviously pre-installed by many distros).
Cuz who needs a tray
This, so much this!
Laughs in xfce
Peak
I’ve been bashing my head against sway for days I just wanna go back to i3 😭
I started on sway and moved to swayfx, out of curiosity what are some of the things i3 provided that sway lacks?
Nothing that it lacks I’ve just never touched Wayland because my hardware hasn’t supported it (I use ewaste machines primarily) and I’m fighting wayland, sway, swaybar and basically the whole thing because I want everything to work the way it did with x11 but it doesn’t and I’m resistant to change.
Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.
Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.
Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.
EDIT: I’d avoid bazzite in general. They have great marketing and it works. But as an Immutable distro, aka read-only, it can give inexperienced users unique challenges to learning Linux. Caveats apply obviously and if you like it and it’s working for you that’s rad too. I’m a cranky bitch but I’m all about people enjoying their stuff to the max in their own way. And the more nerds using Linux the merrier.
I stick with X over Wayland but I’m an nvidia loser. I’m on fedora but would not recommend it to someone just starting out. Same with straight up Debian or arch. They’re all great if you know what you’re doing. But distros exist for a reason.
CachyOS/EndeavorOs. Rock on. I loved these and they’re my fallback if fedora or lmde makes me mad or I want need arch for some homelab thing. I’m weary of the AUR though, making arch kinda pointless for me.
This may have been true at one point but gnome apps started removing basic functionality and hiding what was there in a horrible disorganised burger menu instead of traditional menus.
You’re not wrong. It’s a pick your poison sort of thing. I’m not in love with the burger menus either. KDE apps just feel bloated and fragile to me. (and have forever) I used to like Windows though, in a galaxy far, far away. So my opinion is probably whack.
Gparted isn’t a gnome app, it’s a standalone app. Dolphin can do everything that nemo does. 🙃
No kidding…… interesting. It’s true that dolphin can do everything Nemo does, just poorly.
I love nemo, with the terminal extension, it’s the perfect file manager.
I use it on gnome though.
With just arcmenu, dash to panel, and tophat, gnome becomes pretty solid for me, everything else is just a bonus
dropdownterminal, I think openbar for color and border customization, timer in topbar for self timing work assignments, appstatus whatever its called for the background apps to show up, it does rely on extensions, but I see that as a bonus, it’s up to you how complicated you want your setup to be
Burnmywindows ofc
I also think its great for handhelds, have dash to panel and arcmenu there too but configured differently. On the left side and resized larger with less options and one of the larger grid options for arc menu
Really? I remember Nemo being my favorite GTK file manager, but that was some years ago. When I started using Dolphin I thought that it was the best file manager I’ve ever used. I still think that, but as mentioned above, I’ve not tried Nemo in years.
I distributed/DE/WM hopped a ton over the last year. I’ve wanted to live KDE/KDE apps for the last 20 years. Dolphin is fine, Nemo is just exactly what I want it to be. It also runs fairly well from the terminal over ssh and I can configure it fast since it doesn’t need a ton of tweaking. Dual pane and terminal plugin like was mentioned in another comment.
How dare you :P Dolphin is great; always use Gnome-Disks though (and GParted Live in the times of yore)
You may fail to understand this if you are not a programmer but Dolphin is somehow both singleton and multi instance.
Its messy code is mostly made for single instance meanwhile there can be multiple dolphin instances.
The most basic way to observe this is to simply open a second dolphin window in a different folder. New Dolphin will bring tabs from the old Dolphin likely because it thinks those are previously closed tabs meanwhile nothing changes in old Dolphin window. What a mess.
Just tested ‘the most basic way’ and it doesn’t has this behaviour neither on my machine, nor in vm. Are you sure that it isn’t just something that you configured? Anyway it’s one of the best file managers.
Happy sway user here! Not sure I could ever go back to a floating window manager. I’m too used to tiling now.
Any advice? Or some good dot files / configs / guide you used?
Honestly I’d start with the default config file to see if you like the general workflow and then begin modifying as you see fit. That’s how I started way back when I first learned i3.
Maybe first replace it’s default swaybar with the more customizable waybar.
I threw the fedora 43 i3 spin on a box. So far so good. I haven’t rage quit back to cinnamon yet. Ended up chickening out and did i3 because I have Wayland nvidia multi monitor trauma. So I’ll ride X out a little longer.
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KDE is pretty enough that I’m willing to put up with my decade-old laptop freezing every time I switch windows
Cinnamon is reliable enough that I’m willing to put up with it being kinda ugly on my desktop PC
I still don’t know enough about Linux to have any opinions deeper than aesthetic differences
