Debian Celebrates 30 Years

Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by Bye_Felicia on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:12AM (#37161882)

The state of Debian based GUI's is a joke. I tried to do a simple task you could do in both Windows and iOS, I wanted to change the name of a file by just clicking on it and could not do it. I had to press some stupid key combination. It's just sad that such a promising distro has the same issues as every other Linux distro, utter and complete unusability.

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by lnxg33k1 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:19AM (#37162005)

Here's to 30 more years of OSX/Windows users complaining about how things that people has been using for 30 years are unusable!

There are so many ways to rename stuff on linux that if instead of connecting the keyboard to the trash can you connected it to the brain you could have found that you can configure any action to any key/combination, I have rename on F2, nothing extremely difficult

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by markab21 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:35AM (#37162294)

Linux distributions, including Debian, offer a variety of desktop environments, each with its own design philosophy and user experience. If one environment doesn't suit your preferences, others might be more to your liking. It's worth exploring different desktop environments to find one that aligns with your expectations.

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by pak9rabid on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:17AM (#37161971)

How is this Debian's fault? You're free to choose whatever desktop environment you want.

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by lnxg33k1 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:20AM (#37162037)

I'm supposed to make a choice? To understand something and then decide for myself? Wtf? This must be some new millennials shit, they want to ruin our society :(

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by shadowgovt on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:50PM (#37164541)

You joke, but making the choice for you is one of the things Apple users often consider a value-add from the platform.

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by flkenosad on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:21AM (#37162053)

This sort of comment is a complete joke. You get what you pay for buddy. And nobody cares about your personal preferences. Also, as a datapoint, I hate the default macOS/windows behaviour and prefer the key combos.

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by VWWHFSfQ on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:21AM (#37162041)

This isn't really a problem with Debian but just "desktop Linux" in general. Lots of little quality of life/usability things that just don't exist or don't work. I'm a pretty happy user of Ubuntu w/gnome but I'm not going to pretend that it's some kind of great desktop system. I just prefer to use it anyway.

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by AnonCoward42 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:38AM (#37162361)

There certainly are aspects that could be better, but renaming is not one of them.

The default behavior on Windows File Explorer is actually a bad UX decision imo. You click a file and you might accidentally rename the file in the process. Please don't attach too much (hidden) behavior. Sure I got used to it in Windows, but it's surely not the best way to rename files. It should be explicit and if you do it often, you can use the shortcut (that is just F2 usually).

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by 000ooo000 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:23AM (#37162088)

Get in touch with the Debian folk, they're really good and would likely be happy to offer you a refund.

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by stOneskull on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:08AM (#37162860)

i think it's like kde for bells and whistles; xforce for tweaking; gnome and cinnamon to get out of your way.

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by RetroTechie on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:36AM (#37163315)

What? I've been running Debian for more than a decade by now.

Through multiple releases without re-install. Moved from PC to PC to PC. Not ideal, but it works.

Different desktop environments. File management, web surfing, playing movies using dozens audio/video codecs, gaming (also some native Windows ones), electronics / programmable logic design (Xilinx ISE) & more, all on the same system no VM stuff.

And you can't rename a single file?

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Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years by Bye_Felicia on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:22PM (#37164088)

I lost one of my arms in the war, and having to take my hand off of the mouse in order to perform a task like renaming breaks my workflow. I'm sorry if that bothers you.

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