#desktop-environment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #desktop-environment, aggregated by home.social.
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I've been following the development of a new #DesktopEnvironment, and I gotta say…
Why is it.that as soon as someone makes something that's different, people swoop in and say "You have to add this feature so it works like #Gnome / #Plasma /Whateverthefuck"?
Like… let's take the Minimize button. Useful in Windows, but far from the only way to deal with setting stuff aside. #Niri handles it with Workspaces and Columns. Gnome (by default) handles it with Overview and Workspaces plus limited snapping. I like that about Gnome and Niri (with #Noctalia or #Dank added in, Niri's my favorite).
DEs work without minimize buttons. If someone's designing a #DE without it, and you need it, maybe you're not the target audience. Maybe it's designed for Owlbears.
And that's just one example. I dunno. It's obviously not a big deal and everyone's entitled to their opinion. It's just weird to me to insist that a DE needs something it was obviously designed to work without.
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I've been following the development of a new #DesktopEnvironment, and I gotta say…
Why is it.that as soon as someone makes something that's different, people swoop in and say "You have to add this feature so it works like #Gnome / #Plasma /Whateverthefuck"?
Like… let's take the Minimize button. Useful in Windows, but far from the only way to deal with setting stuff aside. #Niri handles it with Workspaces and Columns. Gnome (by default) handles it with Overview and Workspaces plus limited snapping. I like that about Gnome and Niri (with #Noctalia or #Dank added in, Niri's my favorite).
DEs work without minimize buttons. If someone's designing a #DE without it, and you need it, maybe you're not the target audience. Maybe it's designed for Owlbears.
And that's just one example. I dunno. It's obviously not a big deal and everyone's entitled to their opinion. It's just weird to me to insist that a DE needs something it was obviously designed to work without.
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I recently switched to #kdeplasma. I'm impressed! I even managed to get #Wayland working with my #Nvidia card (with the help of an #LLM). I stopped using KDE over 20 years ago, but it was my main #Linux desktop for years. It's the complete opposite of #Gnome or light DEs like #XFCE. I'm really enjoying it. It's refreshing to have a #desktopenvironment that doesn't treat me like I'm too stupid to deal with options. Anyway, KDE is really good!
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I feel that #GNOME efforts on mobile are wasted.
Probably my biggest argument to NOT donate to @gnome when you see resources wasted on that.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #Desktop #DesktopEnvironment #Smartphone #Smartphones #Phone #Phones #Technology #UserInterface #UX #UI
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I feel that #GNOME efforts on mobile are wasted.
Probably my biggest argument to NOT donate to @gnome when you see resources wasted on that.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #Desktop #DesktopEnvironment #Smartphone #Smartphones #Phone #Phones #Technology #UserInterface #UX #UI
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LXQt 2.4 è disponibile: più Wayland, più pulizia del codice e tante piccole migliorie che fanno la differenza ⚡#Linux #LXQt #OpenSource #Wayland #DesktopEnvironment
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LXQt 2.4 è disponibile: più Wayland, più pulizia del codice e tante piccole migliorie che fanno la differenza ⚡#Linux #LXQt #OpenSource #Wayland #DesktopEnvironment
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I wonder how many desktop environments and projects of similar complexity have trans project leads/primary maintainers.
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I wonder how many desktop environments and projects of similar complexity have trans project leads/primary maintainers.
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You can choose one desktop for your collection of Linux and BSD computers, a mix of laptops and desktops. Your only choices are MATE or Xfce. All of your computers will use that same desktop.
Your computers are at most ten years old, and their operating systems are no more than a year old.
What do you install?
Feel free to add nuance below.
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You can choose one desktop for your collection of Linux and BSD computers, a mix of laptops and desktops. Your only choices are MATE or Xfce. All of your computers will use that same desktop.
Your computers are at most ten years old, and their operating systems are no more than a year old.
What do you install?
Feel free to add nuance below.
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If you had the time to setup your #linux computer from scratch, what #distribution and #desktopenvironment or #windowmanager would you install? 🤓
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If you had the time to setup your #linux computer from scratch, what #distribution and #desktopenvironment or #windowmanager would you install? 🤓
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My first internship in the mid-2000s still used a Unix system with CDE. Ah, the nostalgia.
#nostalgia #desktopenvironment
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nostalgic-developer-recreates-the-1994-linux-desktop-as-a-modern-web-app-for-your-browser-open-source-project-brings-old-school-cde-interface-back-from-the-dead-and-features-classic-90s-web-browser-text-editor-and-more -
My first internship in the mid-2000s still used a Unix system with CDE. Ah, the nostalgia.
#nostalgia #desktopenvironment
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nostalgic-developer-recreates-the-1994-linux-desktop-as-a-modern-web-app-for-your-browser-open-source-project-brings-old-school-cde-interface-back-from-the-dead-and-features-classic-90s-web-browser-text-editor-and-more -
System76 releases COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8! Experience a faster COSMIC Store, reduced VRAM usage, and key fixes for the Terminal and Files apps.
Full details here: https://ostechnix.com/cosmic-epoch-1-0-8-released/
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System76 releases COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8! Experience a faster COSMIC Store, reduced VRAM usage, and key fixes for the Terminal and Files apps.
Full details here: https://ostechnix.com/cosmic-epoch-1-0-8-released/
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KDE Plasma 6.6 improves Wayland stability, adds screen capture exclusion, Spectacle OCR, auto brightness, HDR fixes, and smoother high-refresh performance.
Full Plasma 6.6 features walk-through here: https://ostechnix.com/kde-plasma-6-6-release-features/
