@The_Picard_Maneuver
It doesn’t have to be bloated. Desktops tend to be bloated. Its part of the interface design.It’s not a Linux experience if you don’t customize it to the point of it breaking.
Idk, all the power to everyone who wants it but I also like ootb experiences
Some people want to remove bloat to have a more efficient system
Some people want to remove bloat so they can fill it up again with their own bloat
They are not the same
It’s not bloat if you want it
Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time.
One man’s bloat is another’s treasure
One man’s waste is another man’s soap.
Son’s fanbase know the brother-man’s dopeReminds this one of a nord from Whiterun.
Whatever bloats your boat.
I’m the second part of this statement and I don’t like it.
hey, all that processing power used to layer three layers of differently tinted slightly differently translucent blurred windows with rounded corners are WORTH IT.
EDIT : after all, you need it to run a terminal based browser.
Insert two wolves meme here
Im actually going for the Gus fring one
Yes but I am both
Inside of you are two Gus Frings
They are not the same
Ah but you see, this is my bloat! 😂
Yeah - I like my stuff. It might be a little bit messy, but I like it. But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.
But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.
Well, that depends… How valuable is his stuff?
And it’s your computer! if anything should be the way you like, it should be that.
I found a thread on reddit where some doofus was claiming the classic cube layout from Compiz is completly useless and nothing more than eye candy after someone was having trouble with setting up the cube on Wayfire.
It is objectively the best way to handle multiple workspaces.
I feel forced to use slightly customized breeze at this point, because every other theme I would like is either straight up buggy or does not support all of the features Plasma has now…
Idk, default KDE is almost okay for me. I spend maybe 2 minutes changing a few task bar options and virtual desktops.
I used to go crazy with conky and icons and colors and a bunch of crap. Now I got work to do, leave my w95 looking desktop alone.
Customization is and always will be a key selling point of Linux, that’s why I refuse to recommend any district with gnome as DE.
You got to recommend what fits the user. Otherwise you are just telling them what fits you.
It’s all fun and games until you have to actually maintain everything as time goes on. At some point the tradeoff in personal time becomes too great.
My ricing days are long gone. Now I just roll with the defaults and adjust the key bindings since my muscle memory has already hardened into diamonds.
…but I actually like GNOME!
There are quite a few customization options for it too.
Gnome is customizable tho. Just not as much as kde:‘ :)
Gnome is easily the least customizable DE in the entire Linux ecosystem.
And I’m sure their devs are hard at work coming up with ways to make it even less customizable in the future.
They dont have anything against customization. They just dont see why they should add explicit support when they had a clear purpose/vision in mind regarding the software they Write and are lazy enough to say: yo its Not our issue when your customization breaks our apps because our apps werent intended to be Hacked with in your way
But then again im still fresh and not too Deep into either ecosystems
https://webb.is-a.dev/do-not-resize/
This is what gnome devs talking about theming sound like
I keep reading that KDE is super customizable, but nobody ever gives examples. What can be customized other than changing colors and rearranging panels? I’d love to make it my own, but I don’t have the first clue what that would mean.
I prefer hype land myself but can live with ideas unlike gnome
Cinnamon best DE
It’s just so fun having an OS that you can make work for you vs being shoehorned into things you never asked for.
Bloat isn’t “software I chose and spent time installing and configuring”
But it can be “software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it”
True, and that’s a bad practice to take part in! If it’s something that actively runs and consumes resources, one should keep around only if needed.
I love that many of the pictures in the bottom are from Rainmeter. A software for Windows that allows you to place customised widgets anywhere. So… literally have nothing to do with Linux
Man, you have a lot of confidence in your ability to tell Rainmeter apart from Conky, Eww or the like, from just a handful of pixels…
Let’s just say I’ve used Rainmeter a lot. And by a lot i mean for about 20 years. Is it possible people have created replica themes on Conky or viseversa on Rainmeter? For sure. I just found it funny that the image included Rainmeter skins. They’re the kind of images you’ll see as the poster for certain themes. And I’ve scrolled through more of them than I’d like to admit. And many of them are reposted a lot but use the same poster/thumbnail
thats the beauty of it, is it not? having your OS fit SPECIFICALLY you and your needs. i am now so used to my setup that i fell like i will get an aneurysm when trying to use windows… or a DE on Linux
Finally KDE will allow us to save our custom desktop layout. I might spend all my weekends customising my setup from now on.
How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens
How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens
KDE has been able to do this for a long time.
System Settings --> Window Management --> Window Rules
Or, right click on the title bar of the window --> more options --> configure special window settings
From there, you can create a rule that forces a certain program to open its window at a certain location. And you can specify that location to be on the screen you want it to be on. Specifically set a rule for “Position”, enter the screen coordinates where you want it to go, and select “Apply Initially”.
(If the application isn’t behaving under that rule, try adding the “Ignore requested geometry” rule as well.)
Thank you very much!
They just release a new version. Most distro should offer it soon. Not sure it will do what you ask tho, maybe with Activities?
Your title alone deserves multiple upvotes. The meme is just the icing.
The high customisability of Linux desktop is part of the reason why I moved from Windows. Everything looks so clean and modern, and doesn’t have any of the Windows bloat. It’s so good.
It really is. Every time I think “Hey, it would be cool if my desktop could have [blank]”, I look it up and someone has already had that idea and built it.
And when it’s not, I go with a GPT that helps me make some tiny bash script within one or two simple prompts. It doesn’t cover all edge cases, but it solves the problem that I have, in the simplest possible way, which I enjoy a lot. I collected hundreds of tiny scripts so far. Most of them, I have no reuse for, so I don’t know, I think perhaps there’s some value in having a blog about them.
