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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

    MacRosoft OS 11

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    Me want wayland improvements

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Unfortunately for Microsoft there aren't any big UI or UX changes in Plasma 6. Guess they'll have to wait to steal ideas for Windows 12.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately for Microsoft there aren’t any big UI or UX changes in Plasma 6. Guess they’ll have to wait to steal ideas for Windows 12.

    According to a Win12 screenshot from October 2022, Microsoft has been copying macOS's floating dock since before KDE decided to also copy that. Amusingly, in the merge request for the Plasma change, this was even pointed out:

    Luckily it's still Plasma, so such needless changes just for the sake of looking like macOS are customizable and can be easily reverted by us users.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    UX trends be like: "You'll float too!" 🤡

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    since before KDE decided to also copy that.

    Quick search says that floating deck looks like default XFCE panel. How they correlate?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Then we unfloat it again...

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Or we double down on the floating. Make it float off the screen.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

    2### is the year of the Linux AR/VR Desktop!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    And Apple as well should toss their stage manager into the trash and implement a clone of forge GNOME extension.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Shame the extension seems to be on the verge of becoming abandonware...

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    😳really? So then I maybe have to look for alternatives ASAP, it feels so wierd if I use Linux without it.

    Maybe one of those does the trick: https://lemmy.ml/comment/7678755

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Material shell for Gnome tiling

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    In fact, I tested that, and it is very great work. For me, it is visually not as appealing as Gnome with forge.. And I understand that it makes sense to abandon the extension way and go for own DE with such a gigantic change of behavior of Gnome. Extension are just not made for that drastic changes which material shell is/was doing in gnome.

    I’ll check what happens with forge and maybe fork it, if it really gets unmaintained.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    Just gotta hold out for Gnomes Mosaic plans to bear fruit

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I've seen the sneak peek of windows 12 (if that were true), it looks like gnome I think

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    oh my god, they're trying to accommodate for screen touch users too, I'm getting windows 8 flashback here

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

    You do realise that is not Windows, don't you?

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    Doesn't matter that much how it looks. It will be equally annoying and disturbed compared to windows 11, or worse. :)

    Microsoft stopped making operating systems for the user a long time ago.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    This is what happens if you let the services team design the OS, same is happening on iPhones as well, to be fair. On iPhone, it is just a little more decent.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    I personally see iphones as awful and a waste of money.

    You should get a android phone and install Lineage os. F-droid is the only app store you need.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, F-Droid sucks. The team makes arbitrary rules for the packages that are not mentioned anywhere on their website and rejecting packages based on said arbitrary rules. Happened to me.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    The rules are fairly clear and are to protect the end users from abuse and anti features. F-droid doesn't just deny you for no reason.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    As I said, it was a rule made up on a spot. Though recently I've read that they had a problem with one of the maintainers being a dick to people, so I'm curious if it was that one.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    That they don't allow apps that are wrappers for a PWA.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, I can see that. By using a PWA they lose control over what changes get shipped to the end user. It stinks but it makes sense. (At least to me)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    None of it is ever real. People post a ton of “concept” previews, that never look anything like the final product, because M$ are more concerned with selling your data, than making a functional OS