• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    I to would be apoplectic if my only method of interaction with reality was a gnome desktop. Give me a task bar and system tray . would go insane if I had to be constantly disoriented by “activities overview” or had to rely on plugins that break with every update to restore basic functionality.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Gnome has great touch compatibility and doesn’t treat touch like a mouse. Which is more than I can say for KDE which treats touch input just like a mouse. Some people will say something about X11 except that’s a stupid excuse because touch works perfectly in Gnome on X11. I know because I’ve used both.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    10 hours ago

    KDE: I am sleek, customisable and normal.
    XFCE: I am efficient, customisable and normal.
    Gnome: I A M T H E F U T U R E

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        3 hours ago

        That’s hilarious. Will you be here all week?

        (Apple’s UI design language is both inconsistent and needlessly convoluted for anyone trying to actually get shit done)

      • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        5 hours ago

        Dunno about that. Apple is good at making a sleek UI, but it’s often not intuitive. I’ll admit I haven’t spent enough time with MacOS in its current iteration to have an opinion on it, but I’m saddled with an iPhone for work and it’s just unpleasant to navigate at times.

        A good example is app settings. I like that Apple centralizes configuration options in a single settings app, but this also leads to cases where you’re limited in how an app can display its settings since now it’s limited to toggles and dropdowns

        Or cases where customization options are buried in accessibility toggles when they would be better suited to being under the actual system widget or tool it affects.

        In my experience, Apple has had a great set of hardware paired with very strict opinions about features that haven’t changed to match the way people use their devices these days.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          4 hours ago

          I haven’t spent enough time with MacOS in its current iteration to have an opinion on it,

          I have, it’s shit.

          You did a great write up

      • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        21·
        8 hours ago

        user: “do the plugins break often?”

        GNOME: “that depends… do you consider every single release to be often?”

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 hours ago

    Given the trouble going through Pokemon boxes and that Bill’s PC is clearly a server, I doubt there’s any desktop environment. The real question is which distribution is being used…

    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      9 hours ago

      Bill’s PC was probably built around 1996 and given its size, it’s probably a PC-compatible running PC-DOS or MS-DOS

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        8 hours ago

        I doubt many people would’ve been trying to use PC-DOS or MS-DOS as a server in 1996. More likely Novell NetWare, OS/2 Warp, or maybe Windows NT.

        • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          6·
          8 hours ago

          I just looked again at the sprites and it’s quite hard to see, but they’re actually not ATM-like, but they’re just on a desk…