So it sounds like the lack of multiple text channels is the main missing feature? I haven’t used it myself yet so I’m assuming those don’t exist, but the concept of a server seems to be pretty one-to-one with a persistently hosted workspace.
From my understanding, currently the lack of a persistent superpeer makes a long-standing community unrealistic without someone remaining constantly connected, but once that’s implemented it would just be a persistent workspace. Publish the link in a centralized location for your project and bam, you’ve got the equivalent of an official discord server.
What functionality do you think is missing?
gestures broadly at the entire FOSS ecosystem
What?
Reaper is another good DAW that runs natively.
Blender has great video editing capabilities. There’s also KDenLive and a few other native video editors.
CAD is harder unless you’re okay with switching to a parametric design flow with FreeCAD.
Firefox. They’re still great, people keep freaking out over extremely benign changes.
While pretty much any distro can do this, I will warn you that it’s not the greatest idea. GNOME and KDE are both massive software suites and you’ll have a lot of redundant programs, e.g. two GUI file managers, and sometimes you’ll get unexpected behavior. There are also some look and feel issues that might crop up with apps getting style hints from two places. Again, it’s nothing super major, and it’s been a while since I’ve done this so maybe it’s improved, but any time I’ve tried I end up rolling back or reinstalling with only one big DE.
It’s much less of an issue to have one big DE and then potentially several other more modular window managers, as those have much less opinionated payloads. I’ve got sway and hypr installed alongside GNOME.
Linux is just the gateway drug to DotA :p
ZSA Voyager is great, but it’s ergo so neither ISO nor ANSI.
There is SwayFX btw, just sway with some extra eye candy. Nothing super fancy though.
Why do they need to “fight”? They already have the massive advantage of not being locked into Nintendo’s expensive ecosystem. It’s an entirely separate market of people who specifically want to play (new & non-emulated) Nintendo games and nothing else.
Use a tiling wm. GNOME is for people who want a sane, human-friendly default.
Well, I guess because you don’t need to do the ten minutes of setup.
GNOME is more keyboard-focused than KDE. It just also happens to have much better touch support.
Get this meme to /linuxsucks where it belongs.
The biological hypothesis is that they look like an ass on your chest. Asses are visually arousing for males for what I hope are obvious reasons.
GNOME on desktop is built for keyboard-centric workflows, it really shines when you don’t need to use the mouse. I’ll also say that the official extensions do not break, that’s why they’re official. Third party extensions can and do break and have weird wonky behavior, because they’re not up to the same standards.
It’s certainly not for everyone, but a big part of the reason some people have such negative views of it is because they install a bunch of third party extensions to change it into something it was never designed for, and then inevitably there are bugs or conflicts or updates break some of them. A vanilla GNOME environment with maybe a couple judiciously picked third party extensions is a very comfy experience.
Unless you’re barely meeting the minimum specs for a game, on a properly configured system any impact on game performance between the two should be a rounding error.
I imagine it’s due to the default apps not being changed when you switch between the environments. For example it’s probably still using GNOME’s Files application in KDE instead of Dolphin (or maybe vice versa). You should still be able to manually launch the “correct” app in each case, but of course you’ll have to know which is which. There’s no actual problems created by having both installed, but most people don’t because of this and other annoyances.
I use GNOME. KDE is nice in that it allows you to customize everything, but if I want that degree of control I’d rather use a fully customized window manager setup (sway is generally my go-to).
GNOME is also designed to be used in a keyboard-centric workflow, which I prefer. It’s a nice comfy default for when I want the option to use my computer “lazily”, i.e. just kicking back mostly using the mouse to browse the web, but still has enough power-user functionality to make zipping around without touching the mouse feel good.
I also just like their defaults a lot. If you start to install a bunch of third party extensions etc it starts to get messy and degrade the point of the whole unified vision, and at that point you’re better off with KDE IMO.
It’s also worth noting that I don’t really like the default Mac OS UX – while I can see why people say “KDE is like Windows, GNOME is like Mac,” it’s really only a surface level comparison that mostly ends at “KDE uses a taskbar and GNOME has a dock”.
lol okay then I’m pretty mystified. Seems like all of the major features of Discord will either be directly replicated or have functional equivalents.