• eleefece@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      It’s a Pokémon, and in the game, the creatures you don’t intent to use are stored in a PC

  • anonfopyapper@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    What’s wrong with gnome?

    Literally the only foundation that made Linux usable, stable, unified and customizable.

    Yeah it is barebones and extensions can’t really fully supercustomize it, but it does its job pretty well.

    • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      you’re at the whims of devs that DO NOT take user feedback at all. so it’s a very opinionated DE. If you’re not using GNOME the way the devs intend you to use it, then you shouldn’t be using it according to them. so it kinda goes against the grain of Linux as a whole which is all about a custom user experience. GNOME says no to that idea.

      • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        None of this would be bad if the devs also didn’t think that they should be the default Linux desktop. It’s one thing having a constrictive desktop environment that forces you into its way of doing things. I can see that actually being useful in a corporate setting. But to borderline-force that on everyone by way of defaultism, especially those who don’t know better, is where it crosses a line.

        • Leon@pawb.social
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          56 minutes ago

          I wouldn’t blame GNOME for being the default environment. They’re the default because GNOME is stable, and their apps have a coherent design language. It’s a very approachable platform. Their app names are boring, but they’re self-explanatory.

          • Calendar
          • Calculator
          • Files
          • Image Viewer
          • Web

          KDE on the other hand is still decently unstable. Last time I had KDE crash on me when doing nothing but opening the panel edit view was literally last week. The application UX is a bit all over the place, and a lot of them feel like they were “made by developers.” The naming scheme is the olden cutesy KDE/Linux naming scheme, which is charming but feels pretty alien when you’re new to it.

          • Merkuro
          • KCalc
          • Dolphin
          • Gwenview
          • Konqueror
    • Allero@lemmy.today
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      2 hours ago

      Just as you mentioned, GNOME is not very welcoming to deep customization. You either use it the dev-intended way, or you don’t use it at all.

      If you like the default GNOME way of doing things, it’s alright. If you don’t - no amount of extensions will help.

      And it all would be fine if GNOME wouldn’t be the default on quite a few distros, including, most importantly, Ubuntu. New users come from Windows, hear the old advice to just “go Ubuntu” and meet an absolutely horrible and unintuitive experience unlike everything they ever touched. This alone made Linux some bad rep.

    • Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth
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      3 hours ago

      Gnome is great.

      Most Linux users can’t deal with every single project not prioritizing customization. Gnome having a unique workflow (which is a great one) is unbearable for some reason.

      I am not gonna place the full blame on the Linux community though. Gnome started out way more customizable, so maybe that suddenly getting pulled from underneath Gnome users so inconsiderately gave it a bad reputation.

      Then they went and did absurd things with libadwaita to not only stop supporting customization, but actively interfere with people’s choices of customizing Gnome and libadwaita apps so apps ~“are viewed and used as intended by their developers, and people don’t accidentally break apps and complain to the devs” (i.e. Bullshit).

      Literally the only foundation that made Linux usable, stable, unified and customizable.

      I really can’t see how. It’s popular and user friendly, but I can’t seriously give it that much importance.

      For me at least: It just serves to show that Linux UIs can be clean, consistent, and user friendly. Which might pull in funding from companies and governments looking for a good UI to mass deploy.

      But if it didn’t exist, Plasma would’ve eventually filled that vacuum.

      • anonfopyapper@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        WDYM Libadwaita is not customizable? Libadwaita is the most customizable UI lib I would say. You literally fan just change every part of any app through css and call it a day.

        Unlike QT slop - literally fuck ton of inconsistency. And if you don’t like classic Breeze - good luck. Because Kirigami makes it impossible to customize QT apps at all.

        • Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth
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          2 hours ago

          WDYM Libadwaita is not customizable? Libadwaita is the most customizable UI lib I would say. You literally can just change every part of any app through css and call it a day.

          I haven’t tried doing it in a while, but I remember it being very difficult to change themes beyond tint and colors, with lots of apps having custom colors not in the pallet used in the “gtk.css” file.

    • redsand@infosec.pub
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      3 hours ago

      Barebones 🤣 🤣

      Not even a little. GTFO. Flux is barebones, LXDE and LXQT, maybe XFCE but gnome? 😂 bloated DE for touchscreens

    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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      3 hours ago

      I really like using gnome DE. No software is perfect, and no user interface will suit everyone’s user case though.

      The gnome project however has some members that are quite opinionated to the point of being hostile to any criticism or even just opposing opinions.

    • MrSoup@lemmy.zip
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      5 hours ago

      Controversial choices made by devs against most userbase mostly in the name of semplicity at the cost of usability.

      Lately they’ve updated Nautilus’s “open with” menu, which was working fine, to libadwaita and now it lacks search, so I must scroll through a long list of apps. Or other stuff like that which breaks retro-compatibility like no one cares (why do I need extensions and a custom theme by a random dude to make gtk3 not look alien next to gtk4?). Poor extensions developers must convert their extensions every six months.

      I’m still on it because I like its apps’ UX and Plasma still feels unpolished. But I think that’s just a matter of time, given how things are going on.

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        Valid criticisms

        I’m still on it because I like its apps’ UX and Plasma still feels unpolished.

        I mean , you could add its UX as a criticism too, but it’s also the whole point of Gnome3 is to be … whatever the fuck it is they are going for. OpenSource mac+? Plasma feels unpolished because its plain and unassuming, and you form it into what you want it to be.

        Also it gets funky with multi monitors, so I have widgets getting scaled randomly on the 2d monitor, and have

        kquitapp6 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell

        bound to an alias