lmao

I wanna run this on a laptop while in a public place.

For me KDE6 has broken workspaces and thag is unacceptable. Gnome just works (after installing 20 extensions)

Gotdamnit, even terminals are electron apps now

Ooo yes I feel more terminal LARPing in my future. This is gorgeous, thank you for sharing this! :D

I thought CoolRetroTerm was as rad as I could feel doing terminal things. :D

I've always dreamed of silly but cool interfaces like this! Awesome!

... Now link it to HomeAssistant and you really can use it to toggle door locks! :p

That sounds fun and extremely dangerous. Lol

(Cat steps on mouse button and BFG's /home)

"...well, crap!"

Iirc back in the nineties there were 3d desktop environments, where the virtual ‘you’ had to walk from one place to another to switch apps. All a continuation of ‘novice-friendly’ environments emulating actual offices, like Microsoft Bob.

There is something about the slightly bad kerning of QT that gives KDE a vaguely Windows 95 feel. Especially when you start installing extensions that make no attempt to resemble each other; there is nothing I can do to make my CPU temperature meter and my system clock look like they belong on the same computer.

Gnome on the other hand feels like MacOS with meningitis. It's designed to look nice, but not necessarily do anything.

Normally there are different groups of people working on different things. So those that are working on one thing probably aren't interested in working on anything else.

GNOME apps to me all few like tech demos that look cool but aren't very useful because there will always be a deal breaker of a missinf feature or behavior you can't change

I don't really understand why anyone uses ‘KDE software’ or ‘Gnome software’, aside from the control panel and some widgets: for all actual work, I use software that doesn't belong to any particular environment. Namely, Double Commander for file management.

this being possible is madness. And I’m not sure, but I think it would look better with a bit more padding by default. (Less than gnome though)

But at the same time, they’re very utilitarian, which is what I want my OS and DE to be. I want to switch to cosmic, where I tend to like the design philosophy even less, 100% out of loving the tiling components

and the network settings menu is quite bad. very utilitarian if you are an advanced user, terrible for a noob

Been using cinnamon for a couple years and I'm happy with it, although I don't spend much time on my computer. Been recommending it as well since I don't know any better. What's the most user friendly distro you would recommend ?

I use Mint, it's the only distro I've used for a significant period of time, it works just fine for me

Dang, I’m ashamed of myself for missing it. Mint was my gateway from windows too… I knew it was familiar.

why is its icon a mountain if it is named as a spice

I've been using Cinnamon for a long time and I didn't know the icon. TIL

I'm not exactly talking about looking like Macos, I'm talking about how it "feels" more like a rounded corner, hide things away on the edges, overly animated kinda thing. KDE has KRunner which while being like spotlight from Macos, doesn't feel like it.

It's a feeling. It's difficult to precisely explain why it feels like a distasteful experience that I hate.

I was trying to fix a problem by starting from scratch. I was not going to take changes by uninstalling gnome to reinstall KDE and deal with any bits left over.