Yeah this is a huge problem now. Ai generated bullshit has ruined YouTube and it was already ruined by too much garbage.

Every God awful thing apple does gets copied by Google eventually.

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I’m no statistician but this seems within margin of error to me.

Yeah, I hate Apple a lot but I am not willing to turn off my brain about it.

Yeah great point. In Hollywood they use wine. Definitely not ubiquitously all-Mac shops everywhere, yeah definitely not that. Every media company definitely uses all Linux lmao

They’re incredible feats of engineering, only hampered by apples fuck ass software.

Exactly. I would also add it’s because of their business practices which fucks the software side

Yes I’m falling for their marketing by specifically hating macs for 20 years, realizing they’re better than windows, using them for work daily and hating every annoyance of a mac, and finally shunning everything else in favor of Linux on every device possible. Yeah man I’m a mark!

Binary thinking makes fools of people. Do better.

• It’s corporate trash but still does a couple things right
• Your CPU uses 5 times the energy and gets way hotter
• You can hate apple but also see the couple of things they do correctly.
• Yes Linux is better in every way except it’s a bit more to maintain, but I personally find it worth the effort.

What I dislike about the overview is that it takes over the whole screen and also feels a little sluggish. I like the ulauncher loads really quickly and on top of the current UI, blocking virtually nothing from view. Also I like having a few bells and whistles that ulauncher has, like the ability to type a quick math problem and it functions like a basic calculator.

edit: I just realized that I’m mislabeling the thing I dislike. It’s the “show all applications” feature in reality. I use overview a lot just to keep track of what I have open, and I like it, but it serves a different purpose than what I want, which is just a very quick and unobtrusive way to launch an app not on the dock.

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.

Bloat isn’t “software I chose and spent time installing and configuring”

That post title reads like nerdy mad libs

Yes, it is https://www.howtogeek.com/cosmic-desktop-for-linux-exits-beta-with-pop-os-24-04/

I agree with you it’s early, and not mature. Got a lot of growing to do. I recently tried it out and I think it is pretty nice for an early version but I really need a lot more customization to consider switching to it.

The second to last time last time I tried it, when I had all the trouble with crashing, it was in a vm. I think it was on fedora. It was a pretty current version at the time. Maybe 6 months ago. Then a few days ago I installed it as an alternate DE on the current version of pop os. I had some bizarre scaling issues. Didn’t check the version that time. Got frustrated and immediately uninstalled it.

Cosmic left beta months ago.

I wouldn’t say that arch is nearly like that. Maybe you have to put on the doors and hood yourself or something maybe…

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Yeah, a part of me wants to vent my frustration with kde since I truly wanted it to be good, but it wasn’t, ime.

Now for some reason I just had an idea. It would be pretty awesome if there could be a desktop layout standard configuration format such that on any DE that supports it, you could just load up a config file and get a very similar UI on any DE. I know, it’s a pipe dream but it would be cool.

Edit: and yes I know, GNOME haters. GNOME devs would be the first to reject this idea.

You seem to have a really balanced point of view and that’s good. I wanted to like KDE but on the other hand it reads as windows 2000 to my eyes and it bothers me. I did like some things about the interface but overall it felt too busy for me. I hadn’t tried it in years until the recent plasma update and people raving about it and its customizability convinced me to give it another shot. One of the first things I did was try to customize the top bar and task bar to be cleaner. It crashed several times very quickly. That’s a really bad first impression. The bugs I experienced immediately were as many as I’d seen in years of GNOME experience.

In a perfect world though, yes, GNOME would be more customizable, particularly the overview mode. I do not like it at all. On the other hand, it’s not so bad I wouldn’t just live with it if I didn’t have other options. I do though. To launch any app not common enough to put on my dock, I use ulauncher. It’s not the best but it usually works well as an alfred-style launcher app.

I hated macs until OSX and since then I’ve hated windows more. Just mentioning because I’m sure someone will read what I’ve written and think I’m a Mac guy. Which was true for a bit but I’ve grown to dislike macs a lot as well. Their OS is still better than windows though!