• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I feel forced to use slightly customized breeze at this point, because every other theme I would like is either straight up buggy or does not support all of the features Plasma has now…

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    4 hours ago

    I found a thread on reddit where some doofus was claiming the classic cube layout from Compiz is completly useless and nothing more than eye candy after someone was having trouble with setting up the cube on Wayfire.

    It is objectively the best way to handle multiple workspaces.

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    4 hours ago

    Idk, default KDE is almost okay for me. I spend maybe 2 minutes changing a few task bar options and virtual desktops.

    I used to go crazy with conky and icons and colors and a bunch of crap. Now I got work to do, leave my w95 looking desktop alone.

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    It’s not a Linux experience if you don’t customize it to the point of it breaking.

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        4 hours ago

        True, and that’s a bad practice to take part in! If it’s something that actively runs and consumes resources, one should keep around only if needed.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah - I like my stuff. It might be a little bit messy, but I like it. But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.

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        But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.

        Well, that depends… How valuable is his stuff?

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        8 hours ago

        And it’s your computer! if anything should be the way you like, it should be that.

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    14 hours ago

    Some people want to remove bloat to have a more efficient system

    Some people want to remove bloat so they can fill it up again with their own bloat

    They are not the same

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    9 hours ago

    Customization is and always will be a key selling point of Linux, that’s why I refuse to recommend any district with gnome as DE.

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        4 hours ago

        I keep reading that KDE is super customizable, but nobody ever gives examples. What can be customized other than changing colors and rearranging panels? I’d love to make it my own, but I don’t have the first clue what that would mean.

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        5 hours ago

        Gnome is easily the least customizable DE in the entire Linux ecosystem.

        And I’m sure their devs are hard at work coming up with ways to make it even less customizable in the future.

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          They dont have anything against customization. They just dont see why they should add explicit support when they had a clear purpose/vision in mind regarding the software they Write and are lazy enough to say: yo its Not our issue when your customization breaks our apps because our apps werent intended to be Hacked with in your way

          But then again im still fresh and not too Deep into either ecosystems

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      8 hours ago

      You got to recommend what fits the user. Otherwise you are just telling them what fits you.

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      9 hours ago

      It’s all fun and games until you have to actually maintain everything as time goes on. At some point the tradeoff in personal time becomes too great.

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        My ricing days are long gone. Now I just roll with the defaults and adjust the key bindings since my muscle memory has already hardened into diamonds.

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    Finally KDE will allow us to save our custom desktop layout. I might spend all my weekends customising my setup from now on.

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        5 hours ago

        How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens

        KDE has been able to do this for a long time.

        System Settings --> Window Management --> Window Rules

        Or, right click on the title bar of the window --> more options --> configure special window settings

        From there, you can create a rule that forces a certain program to open its window at a certain location. And you can specify that location to be on the screen you want it to be on. Specifically set a rule for “Position”, enter the screen coordinates where you want it to go, and select “Apply Initially”.

        (If the application isn’t behaving under that rule, try adding the “Ignore requested geometry” rule as well.)

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        They just release a new version. Most distro should offer it soon. Not sure it will do what you ask tho, maybe with Activities?

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    11 hours ago

    thats the beauty of it, is it not? having your OS fit SPECIFICALLY you and your needs. i am now so used to my setup that i fell like i will get an aneurysm when trying to use windows… or a DE on Linux

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    12 hours ago

    It’s just so fun having an OS that you can make work for you vs being shoehorned into things you never asked for.

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    13 hours ago

    I love that many of the pictures in the bottom are from Rainmeter. A software for Windows that allows you to place customised widgets anywhere. So… literally have nothing to do with Linux

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      9 hours ago

      Man, you have a lot of confidence in your ability to tell Rainmeter apart from Conky, Eww or the like, from just a handful of pixels…

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        Let’s just say I’ve used Rainmeter a lot. And by a lot i mean for about 20 years. Is it possible people have created replica themes on Conky or viseversa on Rainmeter? For sure. I just found it funny that the image included Rainmeter skins. They’re the kind of images you’ll see as the poster for certain themes. And I’ve scrolled through more of them than I’d like to admit. And many of them are reposted a lot but use the same poster/thumbnail