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got tired of dwm lmao
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I like gnome
I admire your bravery to admit such a thing. You're a fool, but a brave fool.
I also really like GNOME and was a diehard for a loong while but god damn Plasma6 is amazing and I don't know if I can go back to GNOME. I swear KDE went from being one of the worst examples of UI (UX was always alright) design to one of the best.
Gnome I customize once, take a day, have some fun, and I'm done. Kde I customize at least once everyday. and always want to change something because of how simple it is to move/add/change stuff. I end up spending more time customizing than using my pc. I'll prob swap back to kde at some point, but gnome extensions just remind me of cydia and feel good to use. I like opinionated extensions that ppl have ppl have put thought and development time in to, like the extensions are usually intutive and have gone through a lot of testing to get to they layout that they have. They just work.
Imma throw hands, respect my gnomies.
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 hate GNOME not because it looks bad (though some parts do) but because of their ways of doing stuff. Best example imo is libadwaita and client side decorations.
For people who don't know what libadwaita means here - GNOME by default does not support one of the most common way gui apps do tray icons, you need an extension for it (which is obviously pre-installed by many distros).
Cuz who needs a tray
This, so much this!
I use niri btw
you are an awesome person
i did use awesome many months, maybe a year or two ago, but nowadays i'm a niri person
Laughs in xfce
Peak
Kde looks unpolished. Always reminds me of windows.
I don't know why, but gnome is just attractive in a way that makes me want to suck gnome dick
"Unpolished" and "like Windows 7" is exactly what I want. I don't want to be distracted by my DE, it should just work.
Baffling opinion
When is the last time you tried KDE?
I think 2023?
Strongly recommend you try Plasma 6.
Even the early release candidates were extremely polished. It's an entirely different ball game.
Good that we have choices, no? (I use GNOME btw)
I don't hate GNOME but I dislike GTK a lot
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.
Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.
Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.
Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.
EDIT: I’d avoid bazzite in general. They have great marketing and it works. But as an Immutable distro, aka read-only, it can give inexperienced users unique challenges to learning Linux. Caveats apply obviously and if you like it and it’s working for you that’s rad too. I’m a cranky bitch but I’m all about people enjoying their stuff to the max in their own way. And the more nerds using Linux the merrier.
I stick with X over Wayland but I’m an nvidia loser. I’m on fedora but would not recommend it to someone just starting out. Same with straight up Debian or arch. They’re all great if you know what you’re doing. But distros exist for a reason.
CachyOS/EndeavorOs. Rock on. I loved these and they’re my fallback if fedora or lmde makes me mad or I want need arch for some homelab thing. I’m weary of the AUR though, making arch kinda pointless for me.
I love nemo, with the terminal extension, it's the perfect file manager.
I use it on gnome though.
With just arcmenu, dash to panel, and tophat, gnome becomes pretty solid for me, everything else is just a bonus
dropdownterminal, I think openbar for color and border customization, timer in topbar for self timing work assignments, appstatus whatever its called for the background apps to show up, it does rely on extensions, but I see that as a bonus, it's up to you how complicated you want your setup to be
Burnmywindows ofc
I also think its great for handhelds, have dash to panel and arcmenu there too but configured differently. On the left side and resized larger with less options and one of the larger grid options for arc menu
Really? I remember Nemo being my favorite GTK file manager, but that was some years ago. When I started using Dolphin I thought that it was the best file manager I've ever used. I still think that, but as mentioned above, I've not tried Nemo in years.
Happy sway user here! Not sure I could ever go back to a floating window manager. I'm too used to tiling now.
Any advice? Or some good dot files / configs / guide you used?
Honestly I'd start with the default config file to see if you like the general workflow and then begin modifying as you see fit. That's how I started way back when I first learned i3.
Maybe first replace it's default swaybar with the more customizable waybar.
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.
me using kde because i cannot for the fuck of me get LXDE or LXQT to play nice with my video card:
I've just switched to KDE and it's great, but it has about the same amount of cons as gnome.
I gave Cosmic a go recently and it's great, but not quite ready yet. I think in a few updates time, I'll be switching. It's kind of like a cross-over of gnome and KDE and addresses a lot of the long standing pain points of both.
How did you get tired of dwm? It has everything you need!
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.
They explicitly banned AI generated code from their extensions if that skews your mind.
Cinnamon is where it is at. Also, I am happy you found something you like. 👍
too big but consistent paddings vs. compact but inconsistent paddings
using sway btw.
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
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.
Over the past year I’ve gradually switched from Gnome to Plasma but it’s so fucking clunky I do miss Gnome. I feel like it’s in the right place but it just needs rebuilding from the ground up in the modern world.
Yay for conformism!
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