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TheLinuxExperiment: Menus, windows, launchers & system trays SUCK. What can we replace them with? (tilvids.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you think about productivity, you can't help but think that having the default state of your computer being an image with a few icons on it is less than stellar. For opening files, it will never be tidy enough to give you access to all you need, you need a launcher or a folder structure, meaning the desktop is bad at this. For opening apps, having visual shortcuts on the desktop is a duplicate of whatever panel or launcher you have.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

There are valid criticisms, but I do think it's good thought experiment. COSMIC desktop came out, but it's not doing anything radically new besides writing it in Rust. I haven't seen a completely new approach for OS interfaces yet but hopefully videos like this can get a conversation started on alternatives.

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