• thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      Compiz won over so many new users back then. Wobbly windows and desktop cubes may not have been super practical, but they sure looked impressive.

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
        16·
        7 months ago

        The amount of times I’ve tabbed in and out of WoW in front of my friends just to flex that not only it doesn’t crash, but it’s fancy too. Or just give the game a little shake and wobble to mess around while it’s loading.

  • asudox@lemmy.world
    14·
    7 months ago

    Switched to Linux a year ago. Haven’t looked back since. I didn’t even know Windows was getting those creepy ass advertisements all over the operating system if it weren’t for the news here. Now I don’t want to go back more.

    • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml
      6·
      7 months ago

      Have you seen what Microsoft has been up to with Win11? KDE is basically windows if it chose not to shove ads directly into the user’s eyeballs.

    • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      The difference is this can be customized exactly as they want. It may be similar, but the little differences are stuff that you can’t change in Windows.

  • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    Yes, my EOS/KDE brother/sister/enby

    Switched from Windows about a year ago, and have felt zero need to even try another distro or desktop environment.

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
      6·
      7 months ago

      I searched trans in KDE widget store (should show transparent panel), after installed add it to the panel and click on it while in editor mode (it’s sometimes reset to default panel after restart)

  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Decided to throw OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on an old laptop the other day. Haven’t fooled with it enough to run up against any limitations yet, but I gotta say I’m pleasantly surprised so far.

    • overload@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      7 months ago

      Tumbleweed is great. I just started using it after getting bored of PopOS (and it breaking on me after system freeze during updates). Really like the automatic snapper backup feature.

      The whole thing if it being semi-bleeding edge is sensible, at least there is some automatic testing before updates are released.

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
    1·
    7 months ago

    I’m on gnome on my daily desktop, and I hate it ! Thinking to switch to KDE but when I read that it took them 10 years to implement a good fuse “alternative” to make samba share work properly… I’m really hesitant to switch…

    Gnome is great, but I hate the MacOS feeling… Everything seems soo… Proprietary :/ Maybe something more lightweight like XFCE will fit into my workflow.

  • Scoopta@programming.dev
    726·
    7 months ago

    🤔 hating the windows UI and then going to KDE which is basically a more customizable windows UI seems…odd

      • Scoopta@programming.dev
        32·
        7 months ago

        The windows UI being boring doesn’t necessarily have to be caused by a lack of customizability. The windows UI is just a boring UI design even if you make it more customizable. Makes it better, but doesn’t fix the problem IMO.

          • Scoopta@programming.dev
            1·
            7 months ago

            That’s fair, also I’m not saying KDE doesn’t have a use case, for example people who are tired of windows for one reason or another but like the windows UI. Cinnamon has a similar use case which is one of many reasons I think mint is a great starter distro. I just found it odd that somebody who didn’t like the windows UI went to that desktop over the other less Windows like desktops. Comment got ratioed so hard people seem to think I’m hating on the guy or his rice but I just find it odd to not like the windows UI and then go to one of the most Windows like desktops.

          • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
            1·
            7 months ago

            isnt that the point of using a 3rd party option. while windows isnt as customizable as Linux, i fond it odd that people are trying to customize the native windows button instead of using a 3rd party one and customizing that, in which you would have much more control of the function.

      • Scoopta@programming.dev
        1·
        7 months ago

        🤔 I’m actually surprised it’s THIS customizable. We’re talking functionally right? Not just style. Idk I guess I’m not a huge fan of the “start menu/task bar” and having a desktop, maybe I’m the weird one though. I ran vanilla gnome and then sway so desktops and taskbars and all of that aren’t really my thing.

        • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          Definitely. You don’t need to have a task bar or start menu in KDE, it’s just the default. I usually have on panel on the left or right with my workspaces and system tray. I use the overview to manage windows instead of a taskbar, like gnome. I put krunner, the built in app runner on super

          • Scoopta@programming.dev
            1·
            7 months ago

            Huh, tbh I’ve never given KDE a real try. I used it way back in the day on OpenSUSE because I wanted a windows experience but that was when I was still playing around with Linux. I’ve never used it full time. My first full time DE was cinnamon and eventually I decided I wanted something radically different and so went to gnome 3 and never really considered KDE as radically different from anything I had used before.

  • suction@lemmy.world
    433·
    7 months ago

    I love and use Linux and while this looks better than the atrocity Microsoft is selling, let’s not fool ourselves. This is still ugly as hell.