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TCB13, to linux in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)
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lol

TCB13, to linux in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)
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Especially desktop icons are difficult to get right

This doesn’t just affect desktop icons, icons in general suck under Linux. Things have strange behaviors when selected, long names don’t work properly etc.

But most importantly: GNOME doesn’t want to be a traditional (Windows-like) desktop, so why would they implement features that don’t align with their ideas for a desktop experience?

Because GNOME is the only DE with some potential and by not having 2 or 3 simple optional features aren’t getting more traction. I bet half of the KDE users would be glad to use GNOME only if it had desktop icons. Using other DE doesn’t make much sense as you’ll inevitable run in GTK and parts of GNOME and having to mix and match to get a working desktop experience.

Again, GNOME had icons, v3.28 discontinued them for no other purpose than trying to re-inveting something that worked for a ton of people.

TCB13, to linux in Best Linux distro for gaming on a crappy integrated graphics old PC?
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It depends. Old Windows games actually work better in Wine than on modern Windows.

Never saw this happening. Also wine has overhead.

TCB13, to linux in New Plasma 6 Default Icon Theme Looks
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Still garbage. Why is it so hard for the KDE guys to actually design something simple that makes sense? Starting with proportions and spacing between elements that they seem to be unaware of?

TCB13, to linux in Best Linux distro for gaming on a crappy integrated graphics old PC?
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What games are we talking about? If they’re Windows games you may be better using Windows, no extra overhead and complexities.

TCB13, (edited ) to linux in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)
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Why can’t we just have toggles under settings (like we did in the past for desktop icons), works for you, works for me. Everyone will be happy.

TCB13, to linux in Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git
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Maybe you can convince Gitea guys to work on that? After all they’re the leading open-source alternative.

TCB13, to linux in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)
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Yeah pure gnome would be great if they:

  1. provided desktop icons (like they used to);
  2. had an option to disable the activity BS on startup and go straight to the desktop.

But oh well, the GNOME team is more occupied with censoring comments on their blog and trying to re-invent the desktop environment experience with animations and whatnot instead of focusing on what really delivers productivity.

TCB13, to linux in Your chosen desktop Linux defaults?
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Yes Debian, then use Flatpack to get all the latest desktop software and enjoy.

TCB13, to linux in Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git
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Although we’ll be hosting the repository on GitHub

Why aren’t they using a self-hosted instance of Gitea? This makes no sense move to Github of all places.

TCB13, to linux in Dock / Panel suggestions
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Yeah I also had that “issue” with it. That and the fact that it kinda makes minimized applications transparent for no reason, but when I’m running xfce4 is to have performance and I’m not sure I want to install another extension. Btw, how does Docklike Taskbar play with having the clock, and the status tray on the right? Can it do it?

TCB13, to linux in What has been your experience with Flatpak?
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What workaround specifically?

TCB13, to piracy in What VPN do you use and why?
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You can always add this blocklist for extra protection: www.iblocklist.com/list?list=ydxerpxkpcfqjaybcssw

TCB13, to linux in How to package software for many distributions in their native package format?
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Flatpak for sure because AppImages are slow to launch and Snap is Canonical garbage with tons of overhead.

TCB13, (edited ) to linux in Dock / Panel suggestions
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I would like to see Thumbnails ( preview of current window ) instead of Icons in the Dock / Panel.

Yeah me too, that would be very nice to have. I was able to make what you have without Docklike Taskbar:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3639e58c-eb28-4bd7-970d-a38c88fc4a3c.png

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