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Who needs stable, feature-rich desktops anyway
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Umm, KDE/Plasma shell is a fucking absolute disaster of a UX. It makes Windows look good. Gnome has major flaws in its software that make performance go to shit, but overall the architecture and design guidelines are superior and at least have a semblance of direction. Just open the preferences/settings on KDE and you see nothing but pure chaos.
I don't know... Friday I installed Linux on my dad's "new" Thinkpad T495.
I tried to go with Gnome. It's supposed to be the user friendly one, right?
First thing I want to do is change the charging limit of the battery to 80%. It's not impossible to replace the battery, but it would be nice to not blow it too fast.
After 20m of trying and failing I switched to KDE, where the whole thing was 3 clicks.
And even if I didn't know how to do it, the systemsettings window has a search function that will get you the right option in a split second.
a single setting like that being a dealbreaker for a whole DE
seems a bit like an overreaction
It is definitely an overreaction.
The rational part was that I have to mantain his installation anyway. I have a lot of experience with KDE, and having seen trouble with GNOME from the get go, I ran back to the safe choice.
Cool, a setting that’ll have zero practical real world effects.
Of course I love other people telling me what I am or am not supposed to want out of my tech. That's why I exclusively use Apple products. Oh wait, I actually don't.
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And BTW, this is in fact a shitty joke, because even iPhones and Pixels and Teslas actually let you set a charging limit.
They all do, but grab an iPhone and let that shit work, count the cycles and battery life remaining after 180 cycles. Every single iPhone I encounter with that turned on gas excessive battery life decreases. Meanwhile my shit shows 100%. Wait til you find out I build the Telematics Control Unit and Battery Control systems for a large manufacturer.
Gnome is made by designers, kde is made by devs.
Just came across this issue today. I need to install a font. The dir is not accessible through gnome Files. Actually, nothing but mmom ounted drives and my Home dir is. So if I to work in dirs outside my Home, I HAVE to use the terminal. Just to copy a font to a dir outside my Home.
Doesn't gnome have a GUI available to install fonts? Pretty sure you just open a font file and you get the option to install, same as on KDE actually.
Still annoying that you can't access the folder. Though, if it does show mounted drives, surely it also shows your root drive? From where you should be able to navigate anywhere you have access to.
Yeah I found out but the first three guides I found all use the c/p to font dir. However, you are correct - gnome and kde both have GUI apps to view and install fonts. But wasn't aware since the guides I found didn't talk about these apps.
So, ignorance on my part 😬
Nah, I think it's simply a design choice made for gnome files. Been playing around with other file explorers that checks my requirements. The joy of freedom.
XDG
What?
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
Use a fucking search engine.
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Always fun that posts that shit on gnome get upvoted to the moon and ones that shit on KDE get downvoted to hell.