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It’s a setting you can change.

I’m glad titles can be hidden. They eat up all horizontal space so damn fast.

I know, but plenty of people call Plasma just KDE, and the thumbnail is Plasma desktop.

KDE for Windows 10 …

That title got me very surprised for a moment

Node: Did you say “Nerd”?

C# is like Microsoft-branded java. No real difference in the language, but some of the tooling for java is worse.

That’s just basically looking up the answer. … i will not learn anything from it.

Looking up the answer is the way to do it. You’re of course supposed to pay at some attention instead of copy-pasting without using your brains. As you keep doing things, you’ll develop a rough idea of how things are done.

Even if i find it (which is unlikely without asking an llm)

But i don’t know how i did it, and i couldn’t recreate it by myself.

You mean building the thing without any reference? Except for the most basics, you’re not supposed to memorize everything by the smallest details. Imagine asking a lawyer to know the details of every single law off the top of their head.

Seriously, go build that clock.

With basically no knowledge?

Well yeah. You find yourself some simple project and try to build it. When you don’t know how to do something, you look it up.

Like, make a command line clock, for example. Figure out how to get the current time, and then how to print it. And after that how to make it print the time once a second.

Edit: probably the most important skill in programming is breaking the problem into smaller pieces that you can then figure out. With experience, getting stuck like this becomes much less of a problem.

I’ve been using mega synced folders for most stuff. Works fine.

I tried to do this before, but it did not work out.

I couldn’t make the meta key alone open overview. I also tried to add a dock there, but I can only have a panel when not in overview, which is the opposite of that I wanted. I also liked the notification menu and the quick toggles menu in top right corner.

I have been planning to get into plasma extension development to fix some of these issues.

It would help if you got the model right, and an exact one at that. As the others said, “iMac” isn’t a mac laptop, but an AIO desktop.

I run linux on one of these. Everything worked out of the box, except for wireless. See my 2-part adventure for how I solved it.

Mac “bios” isn’t exactly how you’d expect from PCs. Hold down alt key during startup to enter boot menu, and you’re good to go.

If your family member was a mac user before, they might be most comfortable on Gnome, as it has aped many ui features from mac os. It has a similar dock, fluid trackpad-friendly navigation that works the same way, and more.