I can’t be the only one who couldn’t care less about Epiphany. I have zero faith behind a completely random browser that’s just made on the side. What’s the point, who is it for? Firefox beats it on like every use case scenario. Waste of dev time imo.
The ultimate desktop would be something like: KDE’s usability in terms of a bottom bar, notification area and menu (or ArcMenu and Dash to Panel under GNOME) + the design consistency of GNOME + optional desktop icons + window switching like Apple’s old Exposé or the current Windows Task View (Win+Tab).
Windows got one thing (almost) right, fast and snappy multitasking and that’s about it. GNOME adds long animations and takes the focus from the applications to itself - it become the “center of user’s attention”. This isn’t good, a DE should be almost invisible, as minimalistic as it can be so the user can quickly switch between windows and get their job done specially on smaller screens. I guess most people run/enjoy GNOME never touched Apple’s old Exposé (macos Tiger and before?) or the current Windows Task View (Win+Tab) thus aren’t aware how far and how productive they can be on a very small screen with a simple way to move around.
The problem with plugins is what we can see with desktop icon extensions nowadays. GNOME removed their native desktop icons some time ago and all the subsequent extensions that popped up to get that functionality simply aren’t are good - you can’t drag and drop to some other places, there are weird things happening when you move icons and/or the selection box doesn’t make sense.
Gnome was nothing but terrible for me. Lacking of very basic features and many apps, including the freaking file explorer, would constantly crash. I cannot fathom how people use this garbage. Really made me appreciate KDE even more.
For the file explorer it mostly boiled down to the fact that every time I searched something, which is mandatory since it does not have a "jump to" feature, it would very likely crash.
That seems very convoluted to me. Let's say I have a mod folder for a game, somewhat deep folder structure thanks to Wine and such, containing hundreds of mod folders and sub folders. I download updated mod files for one mod, how would you quickly reach the corresponding folder and copy the files into that? I typically have a shortcut to the mod folder in my gaming folder, so that's somewhat quickly to reach. I'd then go into / through the correct subfolders by typing out the letters contained in the folder names and then just copypasta the corresponding files. Is there a better way than that without losing track of things?
Hmm. This case comes up for me regularly. I usually have a hidden file on level lower than my home directory that is linked to the directory in question. I then launch nautilus, and drag and drop as needed.
If it happens often enough I create a bash script that automatically launches nautilus at that location.
That's similar to the shortcut I mentioned, but wouldn't really solve reaching the corresponding sub folders within the folder structure. It would only work if I'd threw all the mod files in the same folder, and pray that the mod authors never actually rename their mod files and that I never have to remove any specific mod. I tried that once, it wasn't a good idea. :)
Yeah, that's as far as I know usually just graphical mods, mostly of the kinky kind.
It gets more complicated when you look at mods that add functionality through script mods, with various mod dependencies, update breakages, etc.
Games like the Sims, or Bethesda RPGs, which are highly moddable and where you install hundreds or even thousands of mods & assets.
You were using a niche distro maintained by a single person and encountered problems? Shocking.
To be fair, I used Nobara myself for a bit until I got tired of suffering from the problems GE was creating himself. But regardless, experience on something like Nobara is not a fair way to evaluate Gnome. Try it on actual Fedora or something else mainstream that isn't constantly fuckering around with all kinds of shit and breaking stuff.
I'm not sure what he could've done that affected the file explorer to such a degree? And obviously that was just one extreme example of many other problems I had. I don't think he removed basic functionalities that I require, I am pretty sure that's just Gnome being so hell bent on being puristic that they just don't ship with it, which breaks my workflow entirely without offering any sort of replacement steps.
And if his stuff breaks so much, why does KDE just works? I only have / had two issues since then. First one was that Dolphin just crashed instantly, which was a known Dolphin bug and required me to manually create the thumbnail folder. The second is the inability to drag & drop out of Firefox, like my finished downloads can't be dragged into a folder anymore - and I know this was a feature from my previous distros (namely EndeavourOS & Manjaro). So, if it was caused by GE, then surely there would be all sorts of things broken with KDE too, right?
@Bogasse and @Gutless2615 just to make my position clear, I hate KDE and all it’s design inconsistency but they actually got a better bottom bar / notifications area. GNOME designs things well but they kinda kill it all with their backwards approach and total refusal to have basic desktop functionality.
Anyone here using devuan on servers? I typically run a release or two behind anyway so when problems come up I can quickly find solutions online, so slower releases don’t bother me. What does bother me is things that work perfectly fine until some software interferes with the tried&true methods. Maybe some day systemd will be stable enough to not screw things up after every update but I am getting tired of chasing down solutions to problems that shouldn’t exist.
My favorite systemd moment was when my (headless) box hung at boot…because I didn’t have a USB drive plugged in. The drive was listed in fstab, which was never an issue before. But without nofail, it was suddenly worth stopping the boot process.
Yeesh that’s bad. I just don’t understand the infatuation with this new startup. I mean sure it’s cool that you can have services waiting for other services before starting up, but if you’re messing around with that stuff then you should already know what order each service depends on every other service. My first experience with systemd was on a raspberry pi, and people were saying how much systemd was going to speed up boot times. Loaded up a new card, booted it up, and it took 1:35. Trashed systemd and installed sysv, and the boot time dropped to 15 seconds. Reinstall systemd and the boot time jumps back over a minute and a half again. Seriously, you want me to learn how to work with a whole new process when it can’t even handle a smooth boot?
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