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A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.

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Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
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Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
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Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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GNOME 47 got released! (release.gnome.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Now, I have always loved GNOME, but I spent the last few months in KDE. That was until I switched back to GNOME a couple of weeks ago. I know it's disliked by a lot of people, but some of these changes, like accent colors and the libadwita file save/open interface, really solidify this desktop my favorite.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

KDE seems more Windows like tho. GNOME seems closer to MacOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I would say that's accurate but gnome is so approachable it would still be best for a windows user who doesn't care for fucking around with a bunch of settings imo. but kde is a fine rec for someone who's set on a windows -like experience for sure, it's also pretty much good to go out of the box. multi monitor can be finicky though

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

I haven't used KDE (outside VMs) since like 2010, but have followed development somewhat. Just seems like it's easy to configure to have a Windows taskbar like experience.

I really like GNOME, and it is nice and simple, but I think new users might find the workflow different enough from what they're used to that it's not intuitive. I've been using GNOME for like a decade though.

I think both are probably easy enough to use with default settings, GNOME is just more of a departure from the conventions of proprietary OS shells.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On first glance, sure. In terms of actual workflow, I'd say KDE is more similar to both MacOS and Windows and GNOME is off doing it's own thing. The KDE = Windows and GNOME = MacOS thing feels like a holdover from the KDE3/GNOME2 days.

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

GNOME2 definitely felt more Windows-like than after GNOME 3.

GNOME is definitely its own thing in terms of workflow, but noobs will always seek an understood point of reference, and the closest thing to it is probably MacOS.