Do you prefer Guake over Yakuake because you use Gnome or other GTK based DE, because of specific features, or because it’s what you’re used to? Or something else?
I’ve only used Yakuake (and I’m on KDE) so I’m not familiar with Guake, but I’m curious
There’s also activities, which are similar but can have different start menus, task bars, and themes
Probably can do more than that with them too, but I’ve never gotten that deep into them, unfortunately
So, one thing that Windows 11 did that I think was half good was moving the taskbar stuff to the middle.
I hated it at first (have to use it at work, and still some at home for specific things), but then I used Start11 for a little bit to try to get rid of the shitty start menu changes and noticed an option to keep the icons in the middle but move the start button itself back to the left. And honestly… I think that’s perfect. Puts the programs that are open front and center while keeping the start button in a fixed location next to a corner border so it’s easy to move the mouse to it without hardly even looking.
Anyway, while I didn’t keep Start11 (I never do… Like the program but it’s always been buggy as hell going back at least as far as Start), I did make my Cinnamon, and later my KDE Plasma, taskbar look like that.
Also moved the sys tray next to the start button instead of next to the clock, and with a couple other monitors on the clock side (CPU and memory usage), the taskbar on my system is pretty balanced.
Maybe not as flashy or interesting as what you’re looking for, but it’s a layout I’ve really come to like
(ETA: the centralizing of the taskbar in Windows I think was bad only because it made the one part that should be in a fixed and easy to hit location, the start button, move around based on how many programs are open… I think if they’d gone with centralized programs and left side start button, it would have been much better received overall… But, this is just my opinion so do with that what you will)
Yeah, liking zypper so far, except that it decided I must have forgotten to install the games and kde-games patterns which I deselected during install because I’ll never use them (my games are pretty much all on steam, I’ve got no real interest in the built-in ones). Blocked them but now it’s warning me about that every time I update, which is a bit obnoxious, but I’m sure I’ll either figure it out or learn to not care about that
Yeah, the sneaky crap with snaps makes me want to avoid them all by itself, I left Windows to get away from that kind of forced decision. The Amazon thing was pretty bad too.
The last straw came when I evaluated it vs Debian for a home server, first update after install and it threw a scare warning making it sound like my system would be insecure if I didn’t pay for pro, and I’m just so not into that kind of manipulative bullshit. I shut down the VM and deleted it immediately and I’ll never touch them by choice again.
Dammit, learning about this right after switching from Mint to OpenSuSE
Didn’t think I’d like it that much but so far I’ve really been happy with it
It does also update Cinnamon add-ons (spices I think?) and Flatpaks, which apt doesn’t handle
Went the other way, moved from Mint 22.3 to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed. Rolling release with solid testing before updates are pushed, any breakage during testing and they don’t push that day’s update, and if something does slip through and break things, just boot into the pre-update snapshot and wait a day to try again with the next patches.
Up to date packages with low hassle, so as long as I don’t need stable-as-in-never-changes, it’s great.
Also, nice to have KDE 6 finally and to have KDE not be a forgotten afterthought (Cinnamon is nice but I always feel like I’m limited compared to KDE)
I can’t decide if this is brilliant or insane.
Or both.
No, see, Xwindows is the newer version of Windows… They usually put the version letter first but decided that Wwindows would confuse people so they left the leading letter off on that release.
The latest version is Ywindows, commonly known by its codename “Wayland”.
Favorite: KDE.
Least Favorite: Gnome, but I’ve not tried a ton… It’s slick but way too opinionated for my tastes. I could change most of what bothers me about it with add-ons and mods, but KDE gives me the controls I want out of the box, and lets you do damned near anything you want before you even start installing mods (I don’t understand the person who thinks it’s too limited and Gnome is more flexible, but different priorities, I guess)
First DE: KDE on XanderOS… To be fair, the name sounded cool to young me and I didn’t know much of anything about the different Linux distros yet. And I think Ubuntu either wasn’t around yet or hadn’t gotten well enough known for me to have spotted it initially
Honorable Mention: Unity… Love it or hate it, Ubuntu was trying something actually interesting and I think it’s a shame they didn’t stick with it longer
Current DE: KDE
Potential Future DE: not sure, KDE does everything I want at this time, but I might give Cosmic a try, and/or a tiling WM, though I suspect I won’t care for it (I’ll give it a real shot to convince me, I just don’t see the appeal)
Longest used DE: KDE
Current distro: Mint with KDE shoehorned in, though will be OpenSuSE Tumbleweed in a couple hours (I love Mint but I’m tired of fighting with old packages and drivers, and suspect that might be the cause of graphics stack crashes that have plagued me… Also because I’m tired of waiting for KDE 6 for years now and it’ll be probably mid next year still before it’s available on Mint, and even then still only as an afterthought)
If only there was some sort of device that would allow you to input those commands without interfering with others, or vice versa… But it’s probably just a dream…
And everything it touches, it feels like it does differently just to be incompatible and extra, and like it goes out of its way to obfuscate everything to force you to use their programs to configure it rather than config files
I once suggested we make cardboard cutouts of our team to stand next to printers to keep them in line
That’s at least two tiers above S, obviously
Out of curiosity, what is it you like about openSUSE? It’s been forever since I’ve messed around with it and was considering switching to it from Mint (having some graphics stability issue possibly coming from my bizarre monitor layout giving X11 headaches while using KDE, which Mint doesn’t really optimize for)
So, why would you pick RedHat over Rocky or Alma?
Or Ubuntu over Debian?
Genuinely curious, not judging
Before you know it, it’ll start not letting you save anything because the cloud account you told it not to use is full
What do you use for the thermal monitor?