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I always look at the “gang signs” they make with total confusion. These ones are all different. I was even trying to see if they were spelling something.
I know a fair bit of gang signs. From left to right you have P, L, A, S, M and A.
I dunno that I would have made Gnome as it is, and I don’t know that all the advances to Gnome has been better or not, but, kde, really? Maybe you’re just a boring guy
Why would you want a “fun” interface? Both KDE and Gnome are perdy nice, by my noob standards
too big but consistent paddings vs. compact but inconsistent paddings
using sway btw.
I really don’t like gnome personally but I’m glad it exists cause other people canlike things I don’t
My problem is people keep infecting the world with software designed with Gnome’s “Mac with Meningitis” style sheet.
Upvoted solely for “Mac with Meningitis”
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.
Yea people tend to uncritically repeat things they hear.
They explicitly banned AI generated code from their extensions if that skews your mind.
How would they know
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.
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.
Konqi is my favorite dragon
I mean GNOME is…fine. I don’t use it, because if I wanted something that chewed up 3-5GB of RAM I’d just run Windows, but if you like GNOME, you do you.
This is Linux. It’s all about choice. Run what you like. It’s your goddamn computer. And that’s what we all love together.
Gnome uses around 1.6GB on my machine and runs a bit smoother than KDE (although last time I tested was 2½ years ago; so that may no longer be the case. I’m on a 240Hz panel aswell, so my experience may not be applicable to most users).
Glad they optimized it. Last time I tried it the RAM usage was atrocious.
Since 4 months I use Gnome on a 100Hz display at work. At home I am on a 60Hz panel. I cannot justify buying a new display, because the older 60Hz has still better colors and automatic brightness, which isn’t very common, it seems.
But I want higher refresh rates now everywhere; a dilemma!
I’m using a Dell S2522HG, that I calibrated using a colorimeter. Best display I’ve ever had. Not sure if they sell it anymore as 24" panels seem to be dying out.
me using kde because i cannot for the fuck of me get LXDE or LXQT to play nice with my video card:
FUCK
pointless fighting
ALL MY HOMIES
recognize that choice is good and what works for some folk won’t work for others. some people want a highly polished experience right out of the box, even if it can’t be customized a ton, and that’s fine. some devs want a UI toolkit that is solid, polished and guarantees that your app will look the same no matter the user’s environment, and that’s fine.
(i use KDE btw)
Fucking love KDE dude. Plasma6 is my jam.
I use niri btw
I want to, but I miss the top panel the way gnome-shell has it implemented.
Is it possible to run niri instead of mutter together with gnome-shell?
I fear GNOME doesn’t have support for running with other compositors, but I could be wrong, couldn’t find anything about it online.
From what I’ve searched, a good alternative is PaperWM, a GNOME shell extension that provides tiling and scrolling features similar to Niri.
…you may also be interested in trying Niri with Noctalia Shell, though I don’t know if it’s easy to setup, or how similar it is to GNOME’s UI, since I just use Waybar.
Thx, I may need to look closer at noctalia-shell. If it can provide some comfort I am used to from gnome-shell, this could be it.
I considered PaperWM, too. Again, I must say. I have used it years ago. In the past it couldn’t keep up with the Gnome development. I tried to use it in later version by fat-fingering in some files. But there was a time when I could not make it compatible again. I havn’t tried it since there is new momentum in the project.
When niri first came out, I tried it with waybar. I am not sure, what I missed most, the way I can start programs or the ability to change typical settings in the gnome-control-center. The last bit could be an issue with noctalia-shell for me, too.
I hopefully will have time to experiment between the years.
you are an awesome person
i did use awesome many months, maybe a year or two ago, but nowadays i’m a niri person
I don’t hate GNOME but I dislike GTK a lot
I’ve been bashing my head against sway for days I just wanna go back to i3 😭
I started on sway and moved to swayfx, out of curiosity what are some of the things i3 provided that sway lacks?
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.
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
