• NotSteve_@piefed.ca
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      4 months ago

      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.

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        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.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    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)

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    4 months ago

    too big but consistent paddings vs. compact but inconsistent paddings

    using sway btw.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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    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.

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      4 months ago

      What kind of pain points? Tbh kde is as close to the ideal desktop as it gets in my opinion, it mostly gets out of your way, but when you need something it’s almost always already there just waiting.

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    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.

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      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).

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        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!

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          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.

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      Yes, i love it too, but lately i’ve been using my laptop on the go. I did not have time to rice the shit out of it beforehand, so i just threw the kde-meta package on it and it worked more or less out of the box.

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    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.

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      I will never understand why users don’t like client side decorations. I get why developers might dislike it. But the title bar is Gnome is functional.

      I love KDE but every window having a big, windows 95 ass, useless bar doing nothing but wasting screen space feels so old and clunky. No one needs that much handle on a window.

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      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).