Oh no
Look out
It’s CHOICE
It’s not a Linux experience if you don’t customize it to the point of it breaking.
Idk, all the power to everyone who wants it but I also like ootb experiences
Customization is and always will be a key selling point of Linux, that’s why I refuse to recommend any district with gnome as DE.
You got to recommend what fits the user. Otherwise you are just telling them what fits you.
It’s all fun and games until you have to actually maintain everything as time goes on. At some point the tradeoff in personal time becomes too great.
My ricing days are long gone. Now I just roll with the defaults and adjust the key bindings since my muscle memory has already hardened into diamonds.
…but I actually like GNOME!
There are quite a few customization options for it too.
Gnome is customizable tho. Just not as much as kde:‘ :)
Gnome is easily the least customizable DE in the entire Linux ecosystem.
And I’m sure their devs are hard at work coming up with ways to make it even less customizable in the future.
They dont have anything against customization. They just dont see why they should add explicit support when they had a clear purpose/vision in mind regarding the software they Write and are lazy enough to say: yo its Not our issue when your customization breaks our apps because our apps werent intended to be Hacked with in your way
But then again im still fresh and not too Deep into either ecosystems
https://webb.is-a.dev/do-not-resize/
This is what gnome devs talking about theming sound like
I keep reading that KDE is super customizable, but nobody ever gives examples. What can be customized other than changing colors and rearranging panels? I’d love to make it my own, but I don’t have the first clue what that would mean.
I prefer hype land myself but can live with ideas unlike gnome
Cinnamon best DE
thats the beauty of it, is it not? having your OS fit SPECIFICALLY you and your needs. i am now so used to my setup that i fell like i will get an aneurysm when trying to use windows… or a DE on Linux
Bloat isn’t “software I chose and spent time installing and configuring”
But it can be “software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it”
True, and that’s a bad practice to take part in! If it’s something that actively runs and consumes resources, one should keep around only if needed.
Finally KDE will allow us to save our custom desktop layout. I might spend all my weekends customising my setup from now on.
How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens
How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens
KDE has been able to do this for a long time.
System Settings --> Window Management --> Window Rules
Or, right click on the title bar of the window --> more options --> configure special window settings
From there, you can create a rule that forces a certain program to open its window at a certain location. And you can specify that location to be on the screen you want it to be on. Specifically set a rule for “Position”, enter the screen coordinates where you want it to go, and select “Apply Initially”.
(If the application isn’t behaving under that rule, try adding the “Ignore requested geometry” rule as well.)
Thank you very much!
They just release a new version. Most distro should offer it soon. Not sure it will do what you ask tho, maybe with Activities?
More like OS Interior Design.
I found a thread on reddit where some doofus was claiming the classic cube layout from Compiz is completly useless and nothing more than eye candy after someone was having trouble with setting up the cube on Wayfire.
It is objectively the best way to handle multiple workspaces.
Its almost like I CHOSE to have this shit bog down my pc
Idk, default KDE is almost okay for me. I spend maybe 2 minutes changing a few task bar options and virtual desktops.
I used to go crazy with conky and icons and colors and a bunch of crap. Now I got work to do, leave my w95 looking desktop alone.
I feel forced to use slightly customized breeze at this point, because every other theme I would like is either straight up buggy or does not support all of the features Plasma has now…
How do you customize it yourself? Every time I try to find info online I just find “use themes,” but I’m not looking for whole themes, I want to kinda sorta slowly theme it myself like “oh I want this to be that color” and stuff, I just don’t know what .conf files or whatever I need to edit.
It’s like forcefemming your pc :3
Your title alone deserves multiple upvotes. The meme is just the icing.
Its fun. With the power of nixos i always have a safe fallback in case i brake something and need my laptop.
Not me writing my quickshell panel for over a week straight (so far) 👀
