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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Gnome is written by, just hear me out, Malus workers in their offtime who got screamed at by Steve Jobs for misplacing a button by a few pixels. They wanted to write a Mac interface without some tech dictator breathing down their neck, but with the same philosophy of "we know what's best for the users".

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Gnome is good as it doesn't had a lot of complexity and looks nice out of the box.

I do wish the gnome devs would be a little more flexible. However, I also wish KDE had a dumb mode that disables the customization. Xfce4 has a kiosk mode

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (5 children)

So, here's a thought. Instead of removing customization, people just, you know, not customize things. It's like going into the Settings page, except instead of doing that, you don't do that.

Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You underestimate my power, I see a Settings menu, and instantly enter a fugue state, 30 minutes pass and I suddenly come back to myself, my desktop environment looks entirely different, the windows are wobbly, and GTK window theming is broken.

I need help

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Here's my complete KDE post-install configuration procedure: go into Settings, search for "Numlock" and change it to "on at boot". It used to include changing Single Click - selects files, but that's the default now, as natural law would demand.

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