KDE edition has the most conspicuous changes, and could become future flagship
  • 4am@lemm.ee
    34·
    2 years ago

    Compared to the rise of LLMs, containers are positively old hat now

    You know, this statement makes the author sound like they think LLMs should replace containers, or that development of better containers is passé because of New and Shiny Things.

    Please take care not to sound like a project manager when doing tech journalism.

  • boredsquirrel (he)@slrpnk.net
    349·
    2 years ago

    Tbh I am fully behind KDE as flagship desktop. Dealing with GNOME users problems all day in the forum, KDE is just better for usability?

    GNOME is reduced over the amount that makes sense. KDE could use a bit of reduction, but not as much as GNOMEs. People need the Terminal or random extensions for basic things, this is not a good experience.

    On the other hand, GNOME and KDE both have really nice features, GNOME with their Microsoft integrations being particularly powerful (their account system works at all, unlike KDEs which I think nobody uses. But when using Thunderbird, which has standalone Exchange support, you dont use that account system anyways so it doesnt matter again).

    Also GNOME has like all their apps on Flathub. GNOME Boxes is particularly crazy, having sandboxed virtualization. This means you can mix match GNOME Flatpaks on a KDE desktop without any problems, KDE even handles the theming for you. On GNOME on the other hand… it actively breaks Qt apps, its insane.

    So I think GNOME has some great apps (snapshot, decoder, simplescan, carburetor, celluloid …) but you can install them anywhere.

    • barbara@lemmy.ml
      65·
      2 years ago

      GNOME looks better out of the box and configuring KDE can be very tricky. There are also a lot of outdated “addons” for KDE and you need some in order to get what you want. extensions are better integrsted in KDE but it’s not like KDE has everything out of the box. I’d love to see more KDE support.

      • andrewd18@midwest.social
        101·
        2 years ago

        I think KDE looks great out of the box, includes all the extensions I want, and is easy to configure.

        • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          2 years ago

          includes all the extensions I want

          This is what people dont get. Different DEs best serve different people. We should always push to have a better experience but sniping between DEs makes no sense

      • boredsquirrel (he)@slrpnk.net
        51·
        2 years ago

        True. KDEs virtual desktops are also basically unusable for me, idk I just dont see them so they are not used.

        There are pros and cons. Its simply a tie, I stay with KDE because the lack of some things (like close buttons with the hitbox in the very edge) would annoy me.

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
          51·
          2 years ago

          This is my issue with KDE. Virtual Desktops are too unnecessarily convoluted to use. Even Alt-Tabbing is a pain if you have anything over 1 single workspace. I decided to daily drive KDE for a few months to give it a good chance, because before I would usually just go back to Gnome after a few days. It’s been 2 months now, and I don’t think I can take much more of it.

            • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
              4·
              2 years ago

              I actually tweaked it to be more “gnome-like”, but the desktops are a hot mess. At the end of the day, it’s a matter of taste, and I’m a huge fan of Gnome’s simplicity.

              • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                I don’t really get this but I’m going to assume it’s that my workflow is just different than yours.

                I have keyboard shortcuts I’m happy with that let me navigate my virtual desktops as desired and place widows on them. If I wasn’t happy with those shortcuts I could change them. I can see having different preferences, or etc, but what makes it a hot mess exactly?

                • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  When I Alt-tab it always goes to the apps open on the next desktop, and never shows the apps on the current desktop. So, say I have Vivaldi and KWrite on desktop 1, and Brave and LibreOffice Calc on desktop 2.

                  If I’m on desktop 1 on Vivaldi and Alt-tab, it’ll move to Desktop 2 and move between Brave and Calc, and but will never show anything from Desktop 1, until I release the Alt key and Alt-tab again.

                  Now, for me it’s even worse since I have 3 Desktops instead of 2.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    2 years ago

    Plasma is not replacing Gnome in Fedora Workstation.

    And it doesn’t need to anyway, the plasma spin works great and there’s no real sign of it being treated as a second class citizen in terms of development/support from the Fedora team.

    • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      2 years ago

      I think the argument is that since it not the default and not visible in the fedora landing page, the kde spin gets less coverage and hence people are more likely to come across and use the fedora workstation in favour of the kde spin.

  • bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml
    13·
    2 years ago

    Ohy god it took me a full minute to realize that I wasn’t looking at three stylized vaginas.

    To be fair, I have seen several neolithic Venus figurines lately.

    • Enkrod@feddit.de
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s three fedoras, looked at from the top!

      Thank you for making me look, but fuck you for not telling me, it took ages of staring at my screen before I got what was actually depicted.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 years ago

        I had no issues identifying it, and was quite pleased that they actually showed fedoras. People confuse trilbys for fedoras far too frequently.