• Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    603·
    2 days 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

      • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        38·
        2 days ago

        user: “do the plugins break often?”

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

      • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
        15·
        2 days 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
          8·
          2 days 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

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        9·
        2 days 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)

  • gegil@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    393·
    2 days ago

    I didnt last even a day after trying to switch to gnome from kde.

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    2 days 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.

    • jjj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      16 hours ago

      I liked using Gnome because it was my first introduction to virtual desktops. I am very thankful that it encouraged me to make use of them and to put 1 window per desktop. However, I tried KDE and it turns out that

      KDE supports a 3x3 grid of virtual desktops.

      In a nutshell I liked Gnome because it encouraged me to use KDE in a fun way. The actual thing that made me try KDE was finally getting fed up by their whole “we refuse to implement server side decorations and also a bunch of other basic features/customization stuff middle finger emoji” thing.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    2 days 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.

    • Edna (dey/sie)@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      This was actually pretty important for me when setting up my yoga thinkpad. Also the stylus worked right away because it’s ubuntu certified.

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days 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
      13·
      2 days 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
        10·
        2 days 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·
          2 days 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…