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XFCE taking the picture (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] SimonSaysStuff@lemmy.world 123 points 2 years ago (12 children)

The biggest thing for me with these two which makes KDE the better DE is that with Gnome I have to change the way I work, with KDE I change it to the way I work. That's what it all boils down to for me.

[–] circuitfarmer 11 points 2 years ago

As far as I know there is no intended method for changing the default terminal in Gnome.

100% unacceptable.

[–] victron@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

You just described my exact situation. I went back to plasma after using GNOME for 3 weeks.

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[–] masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

XFCE is hotter than both!

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[+] westyvw@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't know, with Gnome extensions you menage to change anything you'd want to and even more.

Maybe not anything, but the options are there

[–] javasux@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

But I don't want third-party extensions, I want a DE that comes with a first-party system tray

[–] H2207@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Ok cool thats what you want, fair enough. We, as in Gnome users, don't mind third party extensions for features we want, and that's also fair enough. Every linux user has the option to use whatever DE/WM they want. This freedom is what we fight for.

We, as in the whole linux community have big enough fights outside our community, the last thing we need is quarrels on the inside. "Yes you can use whatever you want do whatever you want", "Ok cool I'm gonna use this then", "NOO YOU HAVE TO USE THIS ARGHHHGH". It's pathetic.

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[–] starman@programming.dev 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's more like:

OS after ricing

OS before ricing

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

lmao my KDE is the most rainbow shit evee with candy icons and purple color

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Other way around

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. Because I prefer KDE and the goth chick.

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I don't think you have to be goth to like goth chicks

[–] lud@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Gnome is the fancy rainbow girl but with useful eyes or mouth. While KDE is the other girl, elegant and customizable and could be a more functional rainbow girl if she so chooses.

(This came out really weirdly but maybe y'all got it anyways)

Edit: I actually meant useless but eh.

[–] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yes. As a Gnome user is agree.

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[–] vd1n@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haha, I just tried kde plasma yesterday and went back to dark gloomy serious gnome.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah I've been using Gnome for a few years and decided to try xfce and kde again, kde kept crashing then reloading and wouldnt save where I put my widgets. And xfce was good but I couldn't get Awesome WM to work and I missed wayland. So back to Gnome I guess

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[–] jerrimu@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Gnome is business casual.

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Ah yes yes. Special snowflakes…

I use Arch btw.

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[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OP only ever seen default Garuda KDE I guess.

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[–] victron@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I migrated from Kubuntu after 4 years to Debian 12 last month. Default GNOME DE. Yesterday I uninstalled that shit and installed Plasma. GNOME is pretty and shit, but just wasn't for me.

[–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Every time I try GNOME I get very confused about what they're training to achieve. I don't like a lot of basic default settings, a story in itself. But the worst part is that they can only be changed via advanced tooling not installed by default (extensions, GNOME tweak). How is that user friendly?

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[–] sezey@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Definitely Gnome :)

[–] zerdekahu@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why does Gnome not have tray icons yet! I really don't get it.

I don't want to use extensions.

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[+] balance_sheet@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Does anyone actually run their PC just through terminal? I need pretty colors to live

[–] poweruser 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did back in college. Mobile computing was just becoming a thing but I was way too hipster (and poor) for a PDA or one of those newfangled "smart phone" devices.

I hacked together a wifi SMS texting gadget following a tutorial on Hack a Day. It ran Debian with Linux kernel 2.6 and was so fun to tinker with.

It had 32 MB of RAM but X used 11 MB of that so you couldn't really do anything in graphical mode anyway. A shell running GNU screen however only took 4 MB so it was much more usable from the terminal.

I eventually figured out a way to pipe images and even (non accelerated, since it didn't have a GPU) video from mplayer to write directly into the framebuffer. It was a real bear to get it translated into landscape mode.

I Am Legend in 144p never looked so good.

Even with the terrible specs, I have never loved a phone so much as I loved that little computer

[–] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

you gotta be atleast twice my age, that entire string of sentences is absurd to me. No GPU? Original I am legend in 144p; absolute hell, why even live. RAM measured in mb?!?!? Wild

Sounds impressive though atleast

[–] poweruser 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not unless you're really young. I was just a Linux enthusiast and had a tight budget. I think this is the original article that inspired me: https://hackaday.com/2009/09/25/with-zipit-who-needs-a-netbook/

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[–] what_was_not_said@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My first computer had 4KB of RAM.

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I have prertty colours in my terminal

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

Desktop, no. Back end server, yes.

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

When I first started out with Linux, I went full ricemode with Arch. For a while I tried running without X, using tmux heavily and browsing with lynx, only starting a specific X server for games.

You can definitely do it, but especially web browsing is not really feasible. There are tons of curses-like applications like mutt and irssi that work really well, but alas, I ended up going back to i3.

Still heavily riced, though, using Vim hotkeys wherever possible. For browsing, qutebrowser is fucking sweet!

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[–] Cover_czar@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still i like gnome

[–] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Now I extra prefer gnome

[–] olosta@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This made me think of this great early text that mostly had this situation reversed :

http://koplowicz.com/content/kde-vs-gnome-2

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's fluxbox look like?

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Like my grandma.

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All these KDE vs. Gnome discussions. I tried them all in a production environment with smb shares WebDAV, caldav etc. I can use them all the way it is usable. But best working from the ground, without to much hassle, is simply gnome.

If someone is new to Linux I would always lead them to gnome.

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[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Am I weird because I like MATE?

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