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Bonus points if she’s both lol
My girl is both, to me haha.
Her family don’t get why I say that. They joke on her and say, “fun? Never heard of it. Now get back to work!”
She’s the most fun person I know though. I absolutely love her company.
They cannot believe that I would even consider calling her “fun”.
What’s fluxbox look like?
Like my grandma.
clutches chest
What? You saying my grandma is ugly?
Other way around
Gnome is the fancy rainbow girl but with useful eyes or mouth. While KDE is the other girl, elegant and customizable and could be a more functional rainbow girl if she so chooses.
(This came out really weirdly but maybe y’all got it anyways)
Edit: I actually meant useless but eh.
Yes. As a Gnome user is agree.
Still Gnome for me
Agreed. Because I prefer KDE and the goth chick.
I don’t think you have to be goth to like goth chicks
XFCE is hotter than both!
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Terminal where
Does anyone actually run their PC just through terminal? I need pretty colors to live
I have prertty colours in my terminal
Desktop, no. Back end server, yes.
GUI is pretty unappealing once you learn CUI. Still need GUI for web browsing, though.
I assume CUI means console user interface? Didn’t know that was a thing
CUI was me messing up. I meant TUI (text user interface).
The command line interface (CLI) is the original TUI and is always prompt and response. You’re prompted for a command, you type it in and then the computer spits out the answer below.
The original CLI were printed on a teletype machine before there were videoterminals. So if your TUI has a real typewriter-kind-of-experience, that’s a CLI. So even something like
cowsayis CLI.TUI is a more broadly encompassing term. This includes CLI, but also programs that display text or text like lines all over the screen. The popular library
ncursesis generally used to make these programs. Popular examples would be vim, or emacs, or htop, things like that.A very simple example of a non-CLI TUI program is
less. It lets you pipe output of a CLI command into it so that it can be scrolled without using only the screen buffer.[Edit] “Console” is a pretty unique term. Back when a computer took up an entire room, the console was the table that the computer operator sat at. Some of the earliest WWII era computers, a console might have just had a panel with indicator lights and you primarily interacted with the punchcard interface.
But eventually, the teletype machine or videoterminal sat on the console table. So doing something “at the console” became slang for using CLI and the terms began to be used interchangeably.
And if you want to go deeper into the weeds, there are still console table furniture you can buy for non-computer usages. Basically a console table is a kind of narrow side table you find near a door. Originally most of these tables included front legs made of “consoles” which is an ancient greek corbel (architecture element) that is shaped like a scroll.
As opposed to CLI, which is specifically command line, yes. The terminal consumes you, relieving you of both the will and necessity that would drive you to use anything else. All of your goals can be accomplished with one weapon: a clicky keyboard.
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Lynx is kinda a relic. But I do use
browshsometimes if I have to.
When I first started out with Linux, I went full ricemode with Arch. For a while I tried running without X, using tmux heavily and browsing with
lynx, only starting a specific X server for games.You can definitely do it, but especially web browsing is not really feasible. There are tons of
curses-like applications likemuttandirssithat work really well, but alas, I ended up going back toi3.Still heavily riced, though, using Vim hotkeys wherever possible. For browsing, qutebrowser is fucking sweet!
I did back in college. Mobile computing was just becoming a thing but I was way too hipster (and poor) for a PDA or one of those newfangled “smart phone” devices.
I hacked together a wifi SMS texting gadget following a tutorial on Hack a Day. It ran Debian with Linux kernel 2.6 and was so fun to tinker with.
It had 32 MB of RAM but X used 11 MB of that so you couldn’t really do anything in graphical mode anyway. A shell running GNU screen however only took 4 MB so it was much more usable from the terminal.
I eventually figured out a way to pipe images and even (non accelerated, since it didn’t have a GPU) video from mplayer to write directly into the framebuffer. It was a real bear to get it translated into landscape mode.
I Am Legend in 144p never looked so good.
Even with the terrible specs, I have never loved a phone so much as I loved that little computer
you gotta be atleast twice my age, that entire string of sentences is absurd to me. No GPU? Original I am legend in 144p; absolute hell, why even live. RAM measured in mb?!?!? Wild
Sounds impressive though atleast
Not unless you’re really young. I was just a Linux enthusiast and had a tight budget. I think this is the original article that inspired me: https://hackaday.com/2009/09/25/with-zipit-who-needs-a-netbook/
In college when smartphones were new had to be before 2010 and to be in college you are usually 18 ish atleast so at minimum 11 years older than me and I’m 20. Double was certainly generous but I’m drunk so it is what it is.
Out of curiosity what distro do you use these days?
Haha, well you got me there. I did all that when I was your age, in 2009 :P
These days I don’t use my personal computer very often so I want a distro that doesn’t break when I update it, so I use Debian Stable with XFCE.
I’m not sure what that makes it in terms of OP’s meme. Maybe XFCE is the car
It’s more like:
OS after ricing
OS before ricing
lmao my KDE is the most rainbow shit evee with candy icons and purple color
Gnome is business casual.
Lxde gtk3 is still best.
Truth.
LXDE and LXQt is perfect
looks like hot garbage until you spend 300 hours theming it but BOIYE IT FAST AS FUCKSounds like the year I used Openbox, I guess it’s kind of based on that so not too surprising but definitely cool!
Ah yes yes. Special snowflakes…
I use Arch btw.
Arch btw
Fixed and I humbly thank you sir.
Arch is Ron Desantis. 🫠
Even if you hate arch, that’s a little harsh.
Yeah it doesn’t crash and burn that hard
Lol it was joke I actually installed endeavor last night, lol.
Just saying “it was a joke” doesn’t make it a good joke. Have no idea what you even meant by it.
You are just jealous.
The biggest thing for me with these two which makes KDE the better DE is that with Gnome I have to change the way I work, with KDE I change it to the way I work. That’s what it all boils down to for me.
The way you work might not be the best way to work. That’s kind of the realization I had to have to use GNOME - now using anything else feels like a chore.
Dude, have you ever considered using Apple products?
Given how much Apple users love the products, I don’t have a big problem with certain parts of the design. My nitpicks are mostly about the walled gardens and proprietary-ness. The seamlessness and the efficiency/functionality of their products deserve admiration (when not combined with corporate greed, of course).
The Gnome/Apple comparison is almost as old as bad, just a stupid take…
Same, I won’t leave Gnome again!
Now if we could just find The Best Way To Work Bible (King James Version of course) we could then be told what the best way to work is.
We disciples of the church of the latter K saints are following the KWin scripture.
The way you work is largely a personal choice defined by personal preference. You may have found a better way to work, but I’m quite satisfied with the way I work.
:)
Just wanted to agree and add that it’s not my DE’s job to tell me the best way to work. That’s why I use KDE even though I like some things about the GNOME environment. Let me get there in my own time, let me set the things up how I want. My work isn’t your work, and your workflow shouldn’t be forced onto mine.
GNOME devs care about their vision, KDE devs care about their users. This has been plain since the early days of GNOME 3.
This is so true, even if some people don’t want to recognize it. GNOME and their whole design walled garden, also those “dOnT tHemE oUr aPps” fellas. Jesus, isn’t that the point of linux? Do whatever the f I want with my OS?
As far as I know there is no intended method for changing the default terminal in Gnome.
100% unacceptable.
You just described my exact situation. I went back to plasma after using GNOME for 3 weeks.
Definitely Gnome :)
Haha, I just tried kde plasma yesterday and went back to dark gloomy serious gnome.
Yeah I’ve been using Gnome for a few years and decided to try xfce and kde again, kde kept crashing then reloading and wouldnt save where I put my widgets. And xfce was good but I couldn’t get Awesome WM to work and I missed wayland. So back to Gnome I guess
That’s weird, for me KDE is rock solid, even with Wayland. GNOME was a resource hog, crashed a couple of times (Debian 12).
AwesomeWM! (On top of xfce 😁)
come back to me when you can tile windows natively
Your downvoters will never understand. If the option were there, people would realize that is the way.
Agreed. I don’t care about window tiling, but when done right is fucking awesome.
XFCE is da best! KDE is second. Gnome is distant last. Lol
Maybe for an underpowered SBC.
Nah, Gnome is already bad on my battered 2017 i3 lenovo laptop… I am on arch btw… XD … so the bloat should be minimal.
Not all people has the resource to buy state of the art laptop…PuppyOS is amazing btw. Very fast & super safe.
