• graphene@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    2 days 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
    499·
    3 days 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
      351·
      3 days 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
        12·
        3 days 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.

        • locahosr443@lemmy.world
          51·
          3 days ago

          I bought a mac mini to run some cad software as everything else I have is Linux KDE. Hated it so much after a few months I bought a laptop and win 10 IoT LTSC license… Gnome is the only desktop environment that pissed me off as much as macOS, and that’s after giving it a good try recently in Ubuntu Pro while working out a new auto roll out solution for work.

      • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        3 days 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
        71·
        2 days 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
        6·
        3 days ago

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

        • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          none of my problems with gnome were caused by the maintainers deliberately making things harder for the user

          the maintainers dont have to intentionally do something for it to be a problem that would make people not want to use linux

      • pewpew@feddit.it
        21·
        2 days ago

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

        • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          2 days 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

    • abra_k@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      3 days ago

      Idk I gave it to my sister and she had 0 complaints. I don’t think it’s perfect, but a sane default choice.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    2 days 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.

  • replicat@lemmy.world
    388·
    3 days 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.

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    32·
    3 days 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.

    • eleefece@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      4 days 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
        13·
        3 days 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.

            • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
              3·
              2 days 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

                • arrow74@lemmy.zip
                  2·
                  3 days 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

        • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 days ago

          Most of the starters for like the last four generations are basically fursonas. It’s tragic. I’ve been a Pokemon fan since the nineties but I’m losing interest.

          • arrow74@lemmy.zip
            2·
            3 days ago

            What made me lose interest is how dead the games feel. I’m impressed how they made the world more open and somehow made it feel so empty. Towns have barely any personality, and the routes are just designed to wonder around aimlessly in.

            Don’t even get me started on the permanent xp share, constant hand holding, and lack of any real puzzles.

            • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              I still think Gold/Silver/Crystal was the actual peak in terms of world design/mon design/storyline/characters, but I’m 100% willing to admit that could be my own particular age bracket of nostalgia talking.

              I do like some of the additional/revised gameplay mechanics from later games… team battles, weather, held items, that kind of stuff makes the games meaningfully more complex, as well as more detail and structure given to how breeding and heritability actually work.

              But a lot of the more… closer to current day stuff bssically just seems entirely like a gimmick that isn’t very well systemically thought out.

            • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              The older games still hold up at least. I’ve been playing through Emerald again and it’s been a lot of fun.

              There’s also quite a few good ROM hacks out there too.

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      3 days ago

      Pokemon X/Y fire type starter. Starts as a Fennekin, becomes a Braixen, then final evo is Delphox, Fire/Psychic type.