Part of why I switched to Linux was this: https://youtu.be/JI-ye1oa4N8
Not that it’s particularly pretty or usable, but like, the fact you can was just amazing. You can really do whatever you want with Linux.
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.
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.
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What the actual fu… oh its 2009
2/10 rice, no tiled WM or anime waifu wallpaper
This is only a 5 minutes setup and I can’t use tiled wm because I need my sanity, for the wallpaper I still haven’t found one XD
What has your sanity ever done for you?!
Keep me alive
Fair enough
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.
I want to marry KDE Join the polycule 😘
Doesn’t look that dissimilar to Windows to me, am I missing something?!
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.
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.
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.
How did you make the panel completely transparent?
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)
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.
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.
welcome to the linux side :3
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.
KDE is love, KDE is life!
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so true
🤔 hating the windows UI and then going to KDE which is basically a more customizable windows UI seems…odd
It’s not so odd when what you hate is exactly the lack of customizability.
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.
Yes, but it has some “quirks” that for somebody are a waste of time. Sometimes better and usable is enough.
For example I profoundly hate the start menu’s suggested apps default window. I just want it to list all apps when I click it. And on win 11 this is not customizable.
Everyone has his use case.
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.
Maybe they feel you are equating Plasma to explorer. Idk. I find your comment reasonable, the example in the main thread’s screenshot is really dissonant with the title. But I have to dissent on plasma’s look and feel. I find that plasma is hypercustomizable, and it looks like explorer only when you configure it as such.
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.
No, the point is that people want a basic functionality implemented since windows 3.1 at least without having to pay (or tinker) for a dedicated app to restore usability.
The registry for that can be disabled. Not that it makes Windows much better
Yes but the updates tend to reset it.
You can make KDE look entirely unlike Windows, its just up to preference.
🤔 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.
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
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.
I’ve seen that username before, do you create and/or maintain wofi?
Yes I do lol, not very often I get recognized in the wild. Hello.
thanks for your work! I use it every day. And btw, I thought that moving from windows to plasma because the UI was boring was weird too(at least aesthetically).
LOL, yeah, honestly with how hard I got ratioed it’s like I offended someone XD. I just found it an odd choice to complain about windows aesthetics and then be like “here’s my fancier windows” but to each their own. Anyway, glad you like the project and find it useful.
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.
That’s your preference
What is?
What’s ugly and what isn’t.
Your mom / my mom
I agree
That’s just personal preference tho. I don’t personally like it either but that’s part of the reason I use GNOME, I think that looks absolutely great. Great thing about Linux is that you don’t have to use KDE Plasma or GNOME or whatever other DE, you can choose what you like the most.
No Linux desktop has ever looked „great“. It’s only been a few years since they became somewhat presentable, but we’re not there yet.
Ok and I disagree. Aside from Android, I think GNOME is the best looking OS/desktop in general. Don’t act like your opinion is the universal truth.
Oh Like you did just now?
No, I just stated that that’s what I think. You’re free to think that all Linux desktops look ugly but ir’s not a fact.
I guess all my statements are what I think? You’re being weird.
My dude… You heard of Unixporn?
I did and it’s stupid
Sounds like a skill issue.
Linux isn’t FIFA
Could you imagine if it was though? Shit would be dope.
Would be banned in Belgium, too…
But yeah I would like Linux Package Managers to work like pack opening in FUT.
No one is forcing you or anyone to use KDE. You don’t like it? Cool, choose one of the other options available.
Thanks for explaining the concept of window managers to me who’s used Linux since decades 🙄
Uhm, okay.
