• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      5·
      2 hours ago

      As a KDE person who’s got an 'ol reliable Mint machine, I’m really glad Cinnamon has fans. I do wish certain customization was a little easier maybe? But it really does “just work” while looking pretty enough and not being overly obtuse.

      I love my KDE and it kicks butt right now, but I don’t want to see everything converge on a single DE. I want them all to improve for the people who love them for their own reasons.

      Cinny rocks.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      1 hour ago

      I used Cinnamon as a daily driver for ten years, I’ve still got Mint Cinnamon on my laptop, and Fedora KDE on my desktop.

      KDE offers Wayland with all its bells and whistles ready to go, but Fedora is the second worst operating system I’ve ever operated. There’s a lot of shit that doesn’t run on it. .rpm is a complete joke compared to .apt, it’s just a shame that Ubuntu is such a joke compared to Fedora. Frankly this might be the perfect time in history to take a fire axe to everything more technologically advanced you own than a wall and go roll around in the mud.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
    18·
    12 hours ago

    Ok, no hate (and with all appreciation for the community due), but since Gnome 3 that’s really how I see it. Perfectly ok but a teletubby.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    24·
    14 hours ago

    Is there a GUI environment that will turn my desktop into the stupid, goofy virtual reality space a lot of movies in the 90s showed off as being “the future of computing?” 🤔

    I want to build a computer that just mimics the stupid hollywood vision of computers from that time because it would be fun and make me laugh.

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    14 hours ago

    I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon for years and after having used Plasma on a number of different setups Mint feels so antiquated. It’s not even close, Plasma is far superior. It’s so much more modern and snappy feeling and you can do so much more with it if you want. Cinnamon makes you have to figure to look in applet settings to then find the setting to modify the start menu. So unintuitive. Among a bunch of other examples I could give

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      This is why when people tell me that Linux Mint is user-friendly, I usually assume they don’t use it themselves.

      • Dop@lemmy.zip
        1·
        3 hours ago

        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 ?

        • Lumisal@lemmy.world
          1·
          42 minutes ago

          If you also game, Bazzite.

          You have to go out of your way to accidentally break it, and drivers just work. Flatpaks are easy for people to install.

          Otherwise, of your hardware does have issues with Fedora for any reason, Debian. It’s more stable than Mint.

    • twinnie@feddit.uk
      251·
      14 hours ago

      I’m the same. I like the workflow of Plasma, I just find it more practical, but Gnome actually feels like an OS made this century. All the KDE software just feels like it was made in the early 00s and since then it’s just been getting hotfixes to keep it going. I wish they’d just abandon a bunch of their projects and stop spreading themselves so thin.

      • Matty_r@programming.dev
        11·
        14 hours ago

        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.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        14 hours ago

        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.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      61·
      13 hours ago

      The default theme could be better but you can customise a lot of it. Or you can wait for the current trend of rounded borders to end and KDE will be ahead of the curve.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      14 hours ago

      I hate that Qt6 dropped the Motif theme. You can get a Kvantum theme that’s vaguely close, but it’s different enough that you can tell the difference (the old one had deeper bevels) and I tend to prioritize Qt5 if I can use it.

    • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Hm never thought about it, but now that you mention it, I feel the same. Mostly using non-KDE apps with a few exceptions like Spectacle and Konsole

        • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 hours ago

          I knew I forgot something… Yeah dolphin is good, but it has some questionable UI design decisions too. For example I always have trouble finding the quick filter instead of the find menu. It’s hidden somewhere and it does not persist. And the find menu itself is such a mess that it’s easier to use find . -iname *whatever* on the command line. But maybe that’s just me and my way of thinking.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    25·
    18 hours ago

    Oh god, I reinstalled debian a bunch of times friday/saturday.

    I ended up on gnome twice, once because I didn’t unmark anything properly, and a second time just to see what the unspecified debian UI would look like.

    I disliked/managed to use it before. Now it’s so fucking macified it makes me want to vomit.