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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I've tried KDE on both Debian and Fedora. Neither have allowed me to do what I want to do: add a secondary storage device to my steam library. Whenever I try to, it just pops up a separate Dolphin window that doesn't affect steam once a folder is selected (almost like it's a separate process and not a child process of Steam).

    The flatpak works, but 1. Ew; 2. It runs steam on Xwayland; 3. Being a debian nerd, I want to be as much of a purist as possible to make life easier down the road

    I'll switch once this is fixed, but I just gotta stick with Gnome until it is

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It’s wild what an impact organizational politics can have on a codebase

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

    Not wild to me. Code is written by people, people who engage in organizational politics. No "base" created by people, digital or otherwise, will be free of such influences.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    Meanwhile openbox: black screen

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Use whatever floats your boat

    I use Gnome because it works for me

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    obligatory LXDE is actually also really good but you know what would make it 10000000000000000000000000000 times better? If there was a Windows 7-esque search bar on the start menu so you could search instead of painstakingly browse through all the stupid icons like its Windows 95.

    I always post a comment like this in discussions about desktop environments in the off chance someone found a way to mod a search into LXDE's start menu.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    ~~Gnome is better than KDE~~ wow what a typo. KDE is better than Gnome. With that being said, the dolphin file manager sucks ASS. The Nemo file manager is superior, except depending on which way the wind was blowing while you installed your distro, you have a 50/50 chance of being able to drag and drop the contents of zip folders into Nemo when running KDE. Dolphin always works when you do this on KDE but that's Dolphin's only positive aspect. The ui and button placement is worse, there's no file copy progress bar window and the file transfer notification it does have is awful.

    Cinnamon works with Nemo and zip file drag-dropping works all the time, but then you're using a 10% shittier DE just to be able to drag and drop. Cinnamon doesn't fully support wayland yet and its beta wayland support is terrible and slow so it's a pretty bad one to be using right now.

    I wish there was a fix. I would suck dick for fix to the "you can't drag and drop the contents of zip files into Nemo on KDE except for if you got randomly lucky when installing the distro in the beginning" bug.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    No love for GNOME these days smh

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    GNOME has been going downhill since version 3. I used to be a diehard GNOME fan, but nowadays KDE is simply better in so many ways.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    As a Gentoo user, I can say that qtbase is probably the one piece of software that caused me the most failed emerges due to some conflict of python packages.

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