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

[bezier@suppo.fi]

Nautilus's awful spatial mode

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

[admin@lemmy.my-box.dev]

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

[tux0r@feddit.org]

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!

[comradegodzilla@lemmy.ml]

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.

[slaveone@reddthat.com]

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

[fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com]

Hah, yea, good point.

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

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.

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

Check your DMs

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

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

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

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

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

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

[brianary@startrek.website]

I was mostly being facetious. I haven't tried it in decades, but I'm pretty happy with Cosmos.

[swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de]

ublic market center

[tarantulafudge@startrek.website]

I stopped using gnome after they removed the ability to edit the menu without going through a bunch of hoops. Their idea of removing complexity involved removing choice and customization. KDE has had superior multi monitor support for a long time.

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

And as a multi-monitor user, I'm finding that part to be true. I've got my panels set up on each of my monitors exactly the way I want. Plus, controlling the wallpaper independently on each monitor as a built-in feature is dope.

[polle@feddit.org]

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

While using a top AND bottom bar on the screen. Thats exactly my humour. I am specific about that, because its what confuses me the most about many gnome distros when they so that. The vertical space is the most important one, don't waste it with additional bars.

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

The dock auto hides lol