• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    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

      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        If they get suspicious on parts of the code they ask the programmer why that part is the way that it is and thought process coming up with it.

        • eskimofry@lemmy.world
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          30 days ago

          I can understand this to an extent. Its the same with copying code you didn’t understand from stackoverflow.

          the primary driver for the ban is not “hot new thing” but code on which no thought has been put into or copied blindly with zero context around it.

  • twinnie@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Over the past year I’ve gradually switched from Gnome to Plasma but it’s so fucking clunky I do miss Gnome. I feel like it’s in the right place but it just needs rebuilding from the ground up in the modern world.

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I much prefer the looks and feel of GTK4 libadwaita apps over Qt6. I switched to KDE Plasma after using GNOME for awhile because I wanted to see if I noticed any improvement in stability, I want to theme my apps, and I prefer to avoid extensions (it is a security risk). I still very much miss GNOME with the 3-4 extensions that I installed, it just felt so much more polished, consistent, and free of bugs and broken features (looking at you theme search and desktop animations installer).

  • TerranFenrir@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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

  • Leah@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      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.

      • Leah@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        30 days ago

        I distro/DE/WM hopped a ton over the last year. I’ve wanted to love 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.

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      How dare you :P Dolphin is great; always use Gnome-Disks though (and GParted Live in the times of yore)

        • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          1 month ago

          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.

    • rescue_toaster@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Happy sway user here!  Not sure I could ever go back to a floating window manager.   I’m too used to tiling now.

        • rescue_toaster@lemmy.zip
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          1 month ago

          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.

          • Leah@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            1 month ago

            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.

    • dil@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      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

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 month ago

      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.

    • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Gparted isn’t a gnome app, it’s a standalone app. Dolphin can do everything that nemo does. 🙃

      • Leah@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 month ago

        No kidding…… interesting. It’s true that dolphin can do everything Nemo does, just poorly.

    • pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.orgOP
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      1 month ago

      Yes, i love it too, but lately i’ve been using my laptop on the go. I did not have time to rice the shit out of it beforehand, so i just threw the kde-meta package on it and it worked more or less out of the box.

  • rustinmyeye@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Gnome is great! My go to… I don’t understand people sayin it uses too much ram. My 2011 macbook (has 4gb ram) running arch with vanilla gnome only uses around 700mb at desktop. Not that bad.

    • pogmommy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I started on sway and moved to swayfx, out of curiosity what are some of the things i3 provided that sway lacks?

      • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        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.