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  • It sucks to maintain so much that almost no one wants to do it. The amount of technical suckage within xorg really cannot be overstated. It sucks in a lot of “consumer-facing” ways too, but we’ve had decades to learn to live with all of the quirks and hacky workarounds. Now that wayland compositors are in a usable state, people are beginning to notice the missing features as well (like HDR for example).

    It’s your setup and if it works then that’s fine. I just can’t help commenting on these kinds of posts where the OP shares their thinly disguised opinion as a “shitpost” because they get downvoted when they do so in an unironic way.




  • Shoko + shokofin is a great solution for anime, but if you get most of your stuff from streaming sources you might have to manually link almost everything (or add it to AniDB). I could be wrong and it wouldn’t hurt to check first with some of your catalogue. You could even just log into AniDB and look at the releases for an anime you have, maybe compare file hashes or test it with shoko desktop if that still exists.











  • anyhow2503@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldKDE wins
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    2 months ago

    For all intents and purposes I don’t have a desktop. It’s just a wallpaper and canvas for the actual workflow. The app drawer is one keypress away, as is the terminal (and I prefer to have separate sessions for different tasks anyway). I usually see my desktop for about five seconds after bootup per day so there’s not much reason to put anything else there. Think of it like the wallpaper or black background of a tiling window manager. I really don’t get how this is such a crazy idea to some people. I’ve subconsciously used the exact same workflow since before Gnome even implemented it, just without explicit support from my desktop environment.



  • Whatever floats your boat. I’m using my keyboard probably 90% of the time and hitting super and typing in one to three letters followed by enter is the fastest way for me to navigate to pretty much anything including system settings and documents. Finding stuff on a desktop with more than a dozen icons is annoying to me. I move windows and switch focus with the standard keyboard shortcuts etc. It’s a familiar workflow for tiling WM users and works that way out of the box, yet Gnome has been catching shit for it since v3. It used to be the disgruntled Gnome 2 userbase but nowadays it seems to be mostly people who don’t use Gnome at all lol.


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    2 months ago

    Icons on the desktop is a non-feature for most gnome users. Even my Windows desktop has been empty since XP released. If you really want desktop icons then using an extension for that should be fine, but it’s silly to frame this as a failing of the “Gnome people” just because Gnome doesn’t replicate the classic Windows desktop experience.