After many years on GNOME, I finally submitted to Plasma supremacy.

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Right!? I was half expecting a maintainer somewhere to start adding some extra recommends or something when it really started to get grim. Happy Plasma user now

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How did you get those panel on bottom?

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It's been a bumpy road. I have strong memories of Gnome devs explaining to users how wrong they were to dislike Nautilus's awful spatial mode.
And when that guy refused to implement a switch off option because users were wrong to ask for it.

Now really, it's quite functional once you've tweaked with gnome-tools and added vital extensions. You also have to remember useless stuff such as "Video" means "Totem". I'll just never understand why they don't really care about sane defaults.

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OK. They aren't products. Not really sure why you feel the need to announce this.

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except that extensions are second class citizens at best, on gnome. Some (or all, sometimes) of them will break after an update.

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I set it up once on install, 4 years ago. I have never needed to tweak any settings after that. Even when installing a different distro (config lives in the home directory)

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Yeah, uble that centre of commerce!

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And most importantly for me personally: they seem to disregard people using multiple windows.

I rarely work in one window, and having a large screen for only one app is pretty stupid.

Gnome feels like it's intended for small screen devices like tablets.

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I also recently switched back to Plasma cause Gnome somehow had issues managing open Windows. GTA Vice City launched and ran in Plasma but only gave a black screen in Gnome.
I tend to use Plasma on desktops and Gnome on laptops, and like them both.

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Nautilus's awful spatial mode

I looked this up. Yeah, it's awful, and the defense seems unhinged, really blaming people who dislike it.

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So... How can you possibly justify that start button?

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I want a simple desktop with small elements to maximize real estate for windows.

Maybe a tiling (or optionally-tiling) window manager would be a good choice then? No elements!

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Yeah, I feel like 9/10 vanilla is best. If the developers of the DE are good it should work clean out of the box.

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Yes it's a configurable property on the panel called "Floating" I believe.

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Hah, yea, good point.

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For the lolz, of course. Like, who is still using the XP start button in '25?

I was a kid in the 2000s so XP represents a golden age of the Internet to me. A time when every YouTube channel looked different and any random MySpace profile you ended up on was probably playing MCR. Before you had to sell practically every scrap of info about yourself to use nearly any service, and Google wasn't visibly evil. Ads were mostly "Your friend's IQ was 44. Can you beat that??" because all the world's authoritarians were too old to care about the web. You could pretty reliably know you were talking to a person in a chat room, and you didn't have to do some kind of mental calculus to determine whether it was a bot trying to rob your grandma of all her money in Google Play cards.

Rose tinted glasses and all that, but idk, I feel like we'll never achieve that again. Everyone was throwing everything at the wall and seeing what stuck. And the tech was kind of in a Goldilocks zone. Just powerful enough to be cool and exciting, but not so powerful that it gets scary.

Except for those damn PS2s being used for nuclear bomb guidance.

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Check your DMs

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I've considered this in the past, and I might toy around with it in the future once I get the motivation to

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The dock is Latte. I run Debian so this is Plasma 5. As I understand it, Latte doesn't really work in Plasma 6.

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Latte. I run Debian so this is Plasma 5. As I understand it, Latte doesn't work in Plasma 6.

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After many years on GNOME, I finally submitted to Plasma supremacy.