Oh dear oh dear oh dear

Yes they’re not the same. Do you think scientist are unaware of that? It is most certainly not almost completely pointless. Are you?

Do you think they just grab a random kitten and shove drugs up its bum until it bursts?

Yes I’m choosing Plasma - it’s actually good out of the box and then can be made better!

KDE works out of the box but can be customised, unlike gnome, which if it’s not how you want to use it does not work out of the box and there’s nothing you can do about it

Unlike gnome, kde can be configured to look and act completely different so you should be fine

I mean exactly what I say. Yes you can select other images but they’re remixes or spins or alternative versions, the “main” version is usually gnome. And you know it!

KDE is not less consistent, it’s just more configurable. Sorry, actually configurable. Gnome basically says “Do it our way or not at all… okay maybe you can change some colours if you must”, which is much more of a Windows (and especially MacOS) attitude than KDE. The default layout of kde is bit more windows like (but less rubbish) but far more configurable. As to hacked together… have you seen gnome’s file dialogues???

Not sure what Pantheon DE is. Does Temple OS use it?

I don’t actually care about gnome, so much as about gnome being the default for most distros when kde is just better at everything a de and a unix-like system should do. Gnome is just… restrictive. Do it their way or you can;t do much of anything. And most annoyingly, the file dialogues are shite!

Is it up to the level of quality and features of KDE yet?

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Yeah, but gterminal or konsole?

edit: apparently people didn’t realise this was a really obvious joke

Oh I’m sure it’s great for what it does!

Currently getting annoyed with my Manjaro install because, after reinstalling due to a dead hard drive, nothing seems to quite work right (and I can’t get Skynet installed). Went to Distrowatch and hit random

Raspberry Digital Signage is an operating system designed for digital signage installations on the Raspberry Pi: it displays a full-screen browser view restricted to a specified resource. It shows web pages from an Internet, local area network or internal (SD-card contained) sources; there is no way to escape this view but rebooting the machine.

Um… maybe that’s not my new daily driver

My computer science exams genuinely included writing (simple) Java programs by hand, on paper

Kakistocracy: “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.”

See also kleptocracy: rule by thieves. I not infrequently refer to our government as a kleptocratic kakistocracy

“I would say ‘don;t do anything I wouldn’t do’, but that doesn’t rule out much”

I use “have fun” completely unironically all the time. One time my partner’s (Pakistani) carer thought I spoke Arabic because Afwan is apparently an Arabic salutation meaning approximately the same as “cheerio”, “goodbye”, or “you’re welcome” in English. He also turns up around half one every day for added amusement

No, someone just dropped a pile of vowels on a page while carrying them to be cleaned or something, and the monks decided to stick with it