Re:On the Graying of Gnome
by hkt on Sunday December 20, 2020 @09:55PM
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It was a big step, yeah, but it was also something new in open source. There are lots of choices if you want desktops that are plainer than Gnome. There's only one choice if you want something simple and slick and sort of luxurious on your Linux machine. I wouldn't be without it, and having just received my Pinephone I'm happy and looking forward to it being with me wherever I go.
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Re:On the Graying of Gnome
by still_grokking on Sunday December 20, 2020 @10:09PM
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> There's only one choice if you want something simple and slick and sort of luxurious on your Linux machine. I wouldn't be without it, and having just received my Pinephone I'm happy and looking forward to it being with me wherever I go.
You mean KDE Plasma, right?
Haven't actually tried plasma, but I hate KDE on the desktop with a passion. Maybe I should give plasma a look though
FWIW, I have a PinePhone and Plasma is just all-around superior to Phosh; faster, more responsive, and uses less battery. I don't even like KDE, but such as it is, Gnome on mobile is not great.
Ten years of pushing touch UI design on us, and it's... Still five to ten years undercooked.
Re:On the Graying of Gnome
by badsectoracula on Monday December 21, 2020 @12:28AM
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> There's only one choice if you want something simple and slick and sort of luxurious on your Linux machine.
According to /r/unixporn... i3-gaps? :-P
(honestly, people in that subreddit seem to manage to make any window manager look totally unexpected visually, e.g. see this[0] for a DWM customization - someone from Suckless must be digging their grave so they can roll in it :-P).
That pic is 100% gorgeous and the sort of thing that got me tinkering with Linux desktops in the first place.
Still, there's only so long I want to wrestle for..