• replicat@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 months ago

    I’m the guy who actually likes and uses gnome as my daily driver.

    It’s for people who want to spend less time complaining about desktop environments and more time actually doing stuff.

  • graphene@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    2 months ago

    We should dissolve the GNOME and KDE foundations and all switch to deepin and xfce. Then we might get discourse so stupid it actually kills people.

  • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Gnome being the default in most major distros for the last 30 years is why Linux hasn’t taken over the desktop market.

    CMM.

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Sarcastic comment or not, not knowing that you could use something other than Gnome (or what Gnome is in the first place) was the reason I avoided Linux as much as possible when I was forced to use it during my first year in university

      • VonReposti@feddit.dk
        2·
        2 months ago

        I loved it when I first encountered it. It was simple, elegant, and easy to use. Over time though, things got bad. I relied on an extension to show the taskbar on all monitors as well as the “Other locations” tab in the file manager to see disk usage plus some other things but these two broke the camel’s back. Every upgrade the extension stopped working for a few months, but at least I could delay upgrading for a bit. That was until the extension maintainer went AWOL, so no update was made for at least a year.

        The “other locations” tab showed disk usage just a click away from my usual workflows. As someone who has a habit of making high utilisation of my disks, keeping an eye on disk usage was required. That was until Gnome decided we were too good for such an easy location so now the only place to see disk usage is in the disk usage analyzer that 1) is rarely used 2) takes a while to start up while it’s scanning the entire disk. My habit of checking disk usage thus died. Until I had to upgrade to the new distro version. And it turned out I didn’t have enough storage left to carry out the installation so my laptop bricked itself halfway. I was lucky that I could boot with a rescue image to clear some space and continue the upgrade but the first thing I did when it was finished was to install Plasma and kill Gnome.

      • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yah, I’m not even being sarcastic. I think it’s over-simplistic interface and disinterest in keeping extensions working over the years has been a major pissoff of people that stuck their nose in and then noped out. Maybe former Mac users could handle it since they’re used to being herded around, but expecting Windows users to come into that bullshit and feel at home was a big mistake.

      • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        2 months ago

        Reminds me of the garbage collector bug on Plasma that would take memory usage to several GB that the devs told people they were full of shit when they reported it and took a year to fix?

        Oh, wait, that was gnome. KDE devs give a fuck about their users.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        2·
        2 months ago

        None of the problems in KDE and XFCE are caused by the maintainers deliberately making things harder for the user

      • pewpew@feddit.it
        21·
        2 months ago

        Yep it’s GNOME. KDE and other DEs are more familiar to Windows users

        • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          linux is not familiar to windows users though
          a slightly closer UI would not change how many other things are done differently between linux and windows

          it would still not change the perceived difficulty of linux, people thinking you have to use the command line, or windows being preinstalled on everything, or some apps not supporting linux, or people not knowing WINE exists, or the many bugs i have encountered, or there being so many distros to choose and people getting confused, or people not having the time to switch to linux, or not caring about their computer, or people being afraid of change, or the many other things i have not listed

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Gnome behaves consistently. I want to love kde and have used it since the 3. Days but kwin seems to hate every build I’ve ever done.

  • wylinka@szmer.info
    1·
    2 months ago

    Pretty art, but this meme is really getting boring. I think people are just regurgitating “GNOME bad” because they heard it from some tech youtuber instead of actually trying GNOME for themselves. IMHO GNOME is awesome. It’s a bit different, but very comfortable when you get used to it. And definitely reliable.

    I often see people using some h4x0r i3wm setup scrolling through workspaces and windows for literal minutes trying to find some app they were using earlier, while on GNOME you can just see everything spatially organised in the activities view. They think they have it “tailored for their needs”, but they end up with an unmanageable config file with bits copy-pasted from the internet that is getting harder to understand over time and keeps breaking. I know it from my own experience too, I got tired of it and came back to GNOME.

    But if you wanna go down that route, GNOME is also highly customisable. There’s lots of extensions that let you change every aspect of it. If you know some JavaScript, you can make your own, there’s a decent community and documentation. Things like Niri or Cosmic actually started off as GNOME extensions.

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Oh, you didn’t want to be disoriented by all the apps flying apart in every direction when ever you wanted to use the task bar? Oh you wanted a system tray not hidden behind a menu?

    Oh, well you can just use a plug in … just pray we don’t update and break all the plug ins anytime soon.

  • anonfopyapper@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 months ago

    What’s wrong with gnome?

    Literally the only foundation that made Linux usable, stable, unified and customizable.

    Yeah it is barebones and extensions can’t really fully supercustomize it, but it does its job pretty well.

    • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      you’re at the whims of devs that DO NOT take user feedback at all. so it’s a very opinionated DE. If you’re not using GNOME the way the devs intend you to use it, then you shouldn’t be using it according to them. so it kinda goes against the grain of Linux as a whole which is all about a custom user experience. GNOME says no to that idea.

      • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        None of this would be bad if the devs also didn’t think that they should be the default Linux desktop. It’s one thing having a constrictive desktop environment that forces you into its way of doing things. I can see that actually being useful in a corporate setting. But to borderline-force that on everyone by way of defaultism, especially those who don’t know better, is where it crosses a line.

        • Leon@pawb.social
          1·
          2 months ago

          I wouldn’t blame GNOME for being the default environment. They’re the default because GNOME is stable, and their apps have a coherent design language. It’s a very approachable platform. Their app names are boring, but they’re self-explanatory.

          • Calendar
          • Calculator
          • Files
          • Image Viewer
          • Web

          KDE on the other hand is still decently unstable. Last time I had KDE crash on me when doing nothing but opening the panel edit view was literally last week. The application UX is a bit all over the place, and a lot of them feel like they were “made by developers.” The naming scheme is the olden cutesy KDE/Linux naming scheme, which is charming but feels pretty alien when you’re new to it.

          • Merkuro
          • KCalc
          • Dolphin
          • Gwenview
          • Konqueror
    • eleefece@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      It’s a Pokémon, and in the game, the creatures you don’t intent to use are stored in a PC

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Oh no.

        That’s … that’s too humanoid.

        I’m sorry you were made this way Braixen, the internet is not safe for you.

                • arrow74@lemmy.zip
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I was never a fan of counting those from games that haven’t released yet. When we can see their pokedex entries they count.

                  But they do technically exist even if we don’t have any other info yet. And the r34 community probably doesn’t care either

            • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              2 months ago

              Lucario. Even mentioned on their Wikipedia page:

              Patricia Hernandez, in an examination of the furry fandom, stated Lucario was the most popular Pokémon for the subset dedicated to the franchise’s characters.[45] Meanwhile, the Pokémon has also been cited as one of the most frequently utilized in erotic works by the fandom and furry pornography,[46] with a June 2023 study of such content on Rule 34 websites, such as e621, Rule 34.xxx, and Sankaku Channel, noting a significantly higher volume of material compared to characters from most other franchises, and the highest of characters from the Pokémon franchise as a whole.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucario