this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
114 points (85.2% liked)

linuxmemes

21448 readers
794 users here now

Hint: :q!

Sister communities:

Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
    • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
    • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
    •  

    Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    114
    Accurate (self.linuxmemes)
    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by fafok20662 to c/[email protected]
    7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
    top 7 comments
    sorted by: hot top controversial new old
    [–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Whenever I try to use GNOME, there never seems to be a setting for the thing I want to do.

    I convinced a friend to try Linux once, and she abandoned it because it didn't have a setting that she needed for her work. Later, when I tried KDE, not only was the setting there, but it was the default.

    It really sucks that desktop is the default for so many distros, because most users coming from Mac or Windows don't even realize they can use a different desktop environment. So, if your only experience with Linux is GNOME, and you think "Linux sucks", I can hardly blame you.

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, KDE is just better in so many ways. When gnome launched kde was built on a not-fully-open-source library, but then they fully open sourced QT, and that was decades ago so now there is no excuse!

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Yeah, I personally like it quite a lot, but I do find it confusing that so many distros ship it as a default.

    It's probably THE best linux user experience on a laptop with all the large buttons and gestures, but you have to be ready to adapt to the environment instead of the environment adapting to you.

    And it's a shame, because using it can be quite fun if you know what to expect and what not, but I think there is a significant lack of communication on what are the use cases it has been built for.

    Also you have to like/not hate libadwaita, which I know is... controversial

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    My understanding is the KDE release schedule/development cycle keeps it from being a viable primary desktop environment for non-rolling release distros.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I get the feeling you're not happy with Gnome, but not unhappy enough to ditch it.

    Open Source window managers and desktop environments enough to choose from, preferred ones here are ctwm for low resources environments (RPi) and xfce4 for intel based laptops. There are loads of other options, I'm sure, but no experience with those. (KDE and Gnome are the reason my wife and I use xfce4)

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

    Why XFCE for Intel specifically? I use XFCE regardless (currently on an AMD desktop).

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I have Intel for my laptops and arm in the RPis. No AMD in use here. (My ancient AMD based servers refuse to boot)

    I should have written Intel/AMD, 'the big, power hungry, stuff' or non-arm. ;) I don't want to waste memory for a desktop environment on the RPis when a simple, '90s window manager does the trick as well for the vnc server.