XFCE taking the picture : linuxmemes

[-] [email protected] 123 points 2 years ago

The biggest thing for me with these two which makes KDE the better DE is that with Gnome I have to change the way I work, with KDE I change it to the way I work. That's what it all boils down to for me.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

As far as I know there is no intended method for changing the default terminal in Gnome.

100% unacceptable.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

You just described my exact situation. I went back to plasma after using GNOME for 3 weeks.

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

XFCE is hotter than both!

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't know, with Gnome extensions you menage to change anything you'd want to and even more.

Maybe not anything, but the options are there

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But I don't want third-party extensions, I want a DE that comes with a first-party system tray

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Ok cool thats what you want, fair enough. We, as in Gnome users, don't mind third party extensions for features we want, and that's also fair enough. Every linux user has the option to use whatever DE/WM they want. This freedom is what we fight for.

We, as in the whole linux community have big enough fights outside our community, the last thing we need is quarrels on the inside. "Yes you can use whatever you want do whatever you want", "Ok cool I'm gonna use this then", "NOO YOU HAVE TO USE THIS ARGHHHGH". It's pathetic.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

It's more like:

OS after ricing

OS before ricing

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

lmao my KDE is the most rainbow shit evee with candy icons and purple color

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Other way around

[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

Agreed. Because I prefer KDE and the goth chick.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I don't think you have to be goth to like goth chicks

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Haha, I just tried kde plasma yesterday and went back to dark gloomy serious gnome.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Gnome is business casual.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ah yes yes. Special snowflakes…

I use Arch btw.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

OP only ever seen default Garuda KDE I guess.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I migrated from Kubuntu after 4 years to Debian 12 last month. Default GNOME DE. Yesterday I uninstalled that shit and installed Plasma. GNOME is pretty and shit, but just wasn't for me.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Every time I try GNOME I get very confused about what they're training to achieve. I don't like a lot of basic default settings, a story in itself. But the worst part is that they can only be changed via advanced tooling not installed by default (extensions, GNOME tweak). How is that user friendly?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Definitely Gnome :)

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Why does Gnome not have tray icons yet! I really don't get it.

I don't want to use extensions.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Does anyone actually run their PC just through terminal? I need pretty colors to live

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I did back in college. Mobile computing was just becoming a thing but I was way too hipster (and poor) for a PDA or one of those newfangled "smart phone" devices.

I hacked together a wifi SMS texting gadget following a tutorial on Hack a Day. It ran Debian with Linux kernel 2.6 and was so fun to tinker with.

It had 32 MB of RAM but X used 11 MB of that so you couldn't really do anything in graphical mode anyway. A shell running GNU screen however only took 4 MB so it was much more usable from the terminal.

I eventually figured out a way to pipe images and even (non accelerated, since it didn't have a GPU) video from mplayer to write directly into the framebuffer. It was a real bear to get it translated into landscape mode.

I Am Legend in 144p never looked so good.

Even with the terrible specs, I have never loved a phone so much as I loved that little computer

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

you gotta be atleast twice my age, that entire string of sentences is absurd to me. No GPU? Original I am legend in 144p; absolute hell, why even live. RAM measured in mb?!?!? Wild

Sounds impressive though atleast

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Not unless you're really young. I was just a Linux enthusiast and had a tight budget. I think this is the original article that inspired me: https://hackaday.com/2009/09/25/with-zipit-who-needs-a-netbook/

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

My first computer had 4KB of RAM.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I have prertty colours in my terminal

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Desktop, no. Back end server, yes.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

GUI is pretty unappealing once you learn CUI. Still need GUI for web browsing, though.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Still i like gnome

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Now I extra prefer gnome

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This made me think of this great early text that mostly had this situation reversed :

http://koplowicz.com/content/kde-vs-gnome-2

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

What's fluxbox look like?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Like my grandma.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Bonus points if she's both lol

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

My girl is both, to me haha.

Her family don’t get why I say that. They joke on her and say, “fun? Never heard of it. Now get back to work!”

She’s the most fun person I know though. I absolutely love her company.

They cannot believe that I would even consider calling her “fun”.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

All these KDE vs. Gnome discussions. I tried them all in a production environment with smb shares WebDAV, caldav etc. I can use them all the way it is usable. But best working from the ground, without to much hassle, is simply gnome.