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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by fxtentacle on Saturday June 14, 2025 @04:49AM (#44275135)
Lucky for you, Valve has sold millions of SteamDecks. The result is that the majority of mainstream Windows software now works well in Proton == Wine on Linux.

And despite people constantly whining about it, GNOME is ultra fast, has great shortcuts, and it looks kinda like the pinnacle of UI design, which IMHO was Windows XP.

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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by aboardRat4 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @10:40AM (#44276717)
Gnome doesn't support system tray by default.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by trealira on Saturday June 14, 2025 @10:46AM (#44276742)
GNOME doesn't look anything like Windows XP, though. Not the design language and not the actual layout of the UI.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by DidYaWipe on Saturday June 14, 2025 @01:02PM (#44277459)
I agree that XP was the top of Windows's UI evolution (in "Classic" mode, not the default Fischer-Price motif).
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by Expurple on Sunday June 15, 2025 @05:04AM (#44281342)
Lmfao. Despite people constantly whining about it, KDE is now stable, has good defaults, and it actually looks like Windows. It's not an accident that Steam Deck uses it.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by frollogaston on Monday June 16, 2025 @04:54PM (#44293294)
The worst part about all of those DEs is that there's more than one. Even one OS might switch its default DE, like Ubuntu did 3? times. Just settle on one, I don't even care which. Gnome2 was fine.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by Expurple on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:55AM (#44297029)
It won't ever fully settle, because Linux users like tinkering by their nature. But in the mainstream, it's kinda already settled on the Gnome-KDE duopoly
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by frollogaston on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:32PM (#44300981)
For now. There's also the Xorg vs Wayland thing.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by Expurple on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:28AM (#44307152)
If I remember correctly, Wayland actually makes it harder to have more DEs/WMs because each must implement its own Wayland compositor
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