You must log in or # to comment.
I found a thread on reddit where some doofus was claiming the classic cube layout from Compiz is completly useless and nothing more than eye candy after someone was having trouble with setting up the cube on Wayfire.
It is objectively the best way to handle multiple workspaces.
I feel forced to use slightly customized breeze at this point, because every other theme I would like is either straight up buggy or does not support all of the features Plasma has now…
It’s not a Linux experience if you don’t customize it to the point of it breaking.
Idk, all the power to everyone who wants it but I also like ootb experiences
Idk, default KDE is almost okay for me. I spend maybe 2 minutes changing a few task bar options and virtual desktops.
I used to go crazy with conky and icons and colors and a bunch of crap. Now I got work to do, leave my w95 looking desktop alone.
Some people want to remove bloat to have a more efficient system
Some people want to remove bloat so they can fill it up again with their own bloat
They are not the same
It’s not bloat if you want it
Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time.
One man’s bloat is another’s treasure
One man’s waste is another man’s soap.
Son’s fanbase know the brother-man’s dopeReminds this one of a nord from Whiterun.
Whatever bloats your boat.
I’m the second part of this statement and I don’t like it.
hey, all that processing power used to layer three layers of differently tinted slightly differently translucent blurred windows with rounded corners are WORTH IT.
EDIT : after all, you need it to run a terminal based browser.
Insert two wolves meme here
Im actually going for the Gus fring one
Yes but I am both
Inside of you are two Gus Frings
They are not the same
Bloat isn’t “software I chose and spent time installing and configuring”
But it can be “software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it”
True, and that’s a bad practice to take part in! If it’s something that actively runs and consumes resources, one should keep around only if needed.
It’s just so fun having an OS that you can make work for you vs being shoehorned into things you never asked for.
Your title alone deserves multiple upvotes. The meme is just the icing.
I love that many of the pictures in the bottom are from Rainmeter. A software for Windows that allows you to place customised widgets anywhere. So… literally have nothing to do with Linux
Finally KDE will allow us to save our custom desktop layout. I might spend all my weekends customising my setup from now on.
How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens
How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens
KDE has been able to do this for a long time.
System Settings --> Window Management --> Window Rules
Or, right click on the title bar of the window --> more options --> configure special window settings
From there, you can create a rule that forces a certain program to open its window at a certain location. And you can specify that location to be on the screen you want it to be on. Specifically set a rule for “Position”, enter the screen coordinates where you want it to go, and select “Apply Initially”.
(If the application isn’t behaving under that rule, try adding the “Ignore requested geometry” rule as well.)
Thank you very much!
They just release a new version. Most distro should offer it soon. Not sure it will do what you ask tho, maybe with Activities?
Customization is and always will be a key selling point of Linux, that’s why I refuse to recommend any district with gnome as DE.
You got to recommend what fits the user. Otherwise you are just telling them what fits you.
It’s all fun and games until you have to actually maintain everything as time goes on. At some point the tradeoff in personal time becomes too great.
My ricing days are long gone. Now I just roll with the defaults and adjust the key bindings since my muscle memory has already hardened into diamonds.
…but I actually like GNOME!
There are quite a few customization options for it too.
Gnome is customizable tho. Just not as much as kde:‘ :)
I keep reading that KDE is super customizable, but nobody ever gives examples. What can be customized other than changing colors and rearranging panels? I’d love to make it my own, but I don’t have the first clue what that would mean.
Gnome is easily the least customizable DE in the entire Linux ecosystem.
And I’m sure their devs are hard at work coming up with ways to make it even less customizable in the future.
They dont have anything against customization. They just dont see why they should add explicit support when they had a clear purpose/vision in mind regarding the software they Write and are lazy enough to say: yo its Not our issue when your customization breaks our apps because our apps werent intended to be Hacked with in your way
But then again im still fresh and not too Deep into either ecosystems
I prefer hype land myself but can live with ideas unlike gnome
Cinnamon best DE
Its almost like I CHOSE to have this shit bog down my pc
I got to the point in my life where I just enjoy a basic Debian XFCE with no customization (except for removing the bottom bar and adding some shortcut keys). With so much going on in real life, I learned of enjoy the never-changing stability on my PC.
Me too. I recently switched from NixOS to Fedora workstation because I didnt have the energy anymore to maintain my config. And all my kubernetes stuff got shoved in proxmox lxcs via the community scripts.
Hey, it’s not bloat if you want it!
deleted by creator
The high customisability of Linux desktop is part of the reason why I moved from Windows. Everything looks so clean and modern, and doesn’t have any of the Windows bloat. It’s so good.
It really is. Every time I think “Hey, it would be cool if my desktop could have [blank]”, I look it up and someone has already had that idea and built it.
And when it’s not, I go with a GPT that helps me make some tiny bash script within one or two simple prompts. It doesn’t cover all edge cases, but it solves the problem that I have, in the simplest possible way, which I enjoy a lot. I collected hundreds of tiny scripts so far. Most of them, I have no reuse for, so I don’t know, I think perhaps there’s some value in having a blog about them.
