nexussapphire

joined 1 year ago
[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Even I wasn't cruel enough to banish my mother to arch. She uses fedora on her desktop (because she liked gnome) and Linux mint on her laptop because I wanted her to make sure she still wanted to switch after trying it for about a month.

She wanted to jump head first but it would have been a pain to go through four installs if she didn't like it.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a dumb user I like gitlab! It's responsive, clean, legible, and pretty easy to navigate compared to others. Also anything that supports git clone because it's pretty nice for manually building stuff on arch.

I don't know what your project is or if it's going to be public but that's my vote if it is!

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

On fast hardware and using Wayland, kde is pretty snappy. I think the extra step slows things down a bit.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

My mother loves it on her old laptop. She told me she likes gnome because it looks pretty. Safe to say I had a harder time finding a distro that was mostly hands off and still didn't intrude as much as Ubuntus snaps.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I love Gentoo but I just can't live with the compile times. Gentoo does a good job of letting you know how little you know about Linux and how deep the rabbit hole can get.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not complaining about gnome getting support, I'm complaining about kde being overlooked because gnome is the default desktop for Ubuntu. Kde is just a better tool for people wanting to just get things done. Gnome is pretty I'll give you that but ask anyone, they are very hard to work with and stubbornly refuse compromise when working with others on creating useful tools and standards.

Just think how many times they broke extensions without any regard for the individuals using it. Their efforts to make other projects wait for them to deside what's best for gnome like they are the only desktop that matters. The projects like portals usually say their going to implement the standard despite what gnome wants and kde often helps with the brunt of that work.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Government ran distros in public schools and government offices wouldn’t be any more invasive than windows working with the government. Better yet there actually be some sort of education on using the os and exponential growth of the Linux desktop as a whole.

I just wish KDE would get some love too. They work their asses off to make a desktop suit as many use cases and workflows as possible while maintaining a mostly polished experience. Their not afraid to implement stuff knowing it’s just a temporary solution till other projects catchup. They are actually willing to work with other projects on implementing standards and are developing standards like HDR on wayland for professional artists and gamers and are the first to jump on major features as soon as its solid.

Gnome is just annoying mess great for smartphone users unwilling to learn anything new and had never touched a pc or Mac in their life. What’s the appeal of using something with half its features gutted for the sake of looks just to have everyone add it back in anyway. It’s an annoying Apple like philosophy of let’s implement counter intuitive interfaces to preserve a look and never change it back because we’re always right. You’d think they’d have improved the window snap feature since 3.0

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It’s the FOSS equivalent of have you turned it off and on again?

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Gentoo, you never half to look at a terminal in that distro. Just white text scrolling on a black backdrop for infinity! The people who like to sit through the end credits of a movie would be ecstatic.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Arch does secure boot if you RTFM... Blaster

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

My highschool band made me create an account for updates and announcements, never really used it since.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm beginning to think you've never used Linux or you have only dabbled with it a little in the past. I almost wonder if you've even used arch properly setup with kde or gnome or even booted up arch before.

Either way, it's hard to have a debate with someone who is either arguing a point without understanding the other side or has very outdated information about a subject and is disinterested in discussion. I don't judge if you prefer windows or Mac os or whatever. I don't think this conversation is going to go anywhere and I don't care to waste energy on it.

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