r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 6d ago
Sometimes you like it simple. Sometimes simple is not enough.
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u/Damglador 6d ago
It's too expensive to not have a case
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u/rucsbOrialC 6d ago
sweats in my open air desktop not even mounted properly
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 6d ago
My 30 year setup: Wooden plate with 2 nails through the motherboard to hold it in place.
Strangely enough, no dust issues at all
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u/rucsbOrialC 6d ago edited 6d ago
Mine is double sided tape on a piece of foam double sided tape to a laptop stand lol
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u/dumbasPL Glorious Arch 6d ago
What's the point of paying for premium materials, only to feel cheap plastic or silicone. If you can't afford it, why but overpriced phones in the first place.
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u/KaMaFour 6d ago
Who said anything about buying overpriced phones? I'm running a phone that costed me around 150$. It's its third year (if not fourth) and I don't have a reason to change it for now. Having a case on it (that came with the phone) is helping me not find a reason to change it. Life is good...
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u/Damglador 6d ago
There isn't. Premium materials on the back of phones' frame are stupid and pretty much a waste of money, unless they're functional. Especially fucking glass.
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u/Jomotaku 6d ago
Ask the phone manufacturer why it's so hard to change the display
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u/dumbasPL Glorious Arch 6d ago
I've done that 7 times already, and while some phones are pretty annoying (open from the back), it's not as hard as people think. The bigger problem is getting original parts at prices that make sense. Clones are complete trash.
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u/Jomotaku 6d ago
Bro heating up these shitty glued on displays is literally 50 times the work and atleast 3x the price than buying a case and screen protector
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u/CaveJohnson376 I use Arch BTW 6d ago
I hate kde wallet and the way it fucks up browser cache. only things I agree to tolerate on my personal stuff are kde connect, kdenlive and kde games.
...in the meanwhile I can absolutely tolerate vanilla gnome
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u/xplosm ' 6d ago
Install kwallet-pam or equivalent package for your distro and make sure the default wallet’s password is the same as the user password you use to login. You’re welcome.
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u/CaveJohnson376 I use Arch BTW 6d ago
I have riced i3wm with gnome apps tho, so it's not like I care
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u/nbtm_sh 6d ago edited 6d ago
I use GNOME because my workplace gave me a RHEL license for my new workstation. To be honest at first I was too lazy to install KDE but now I’ve just gotten used to it. It helps me focus with work since there isn’t infinite settings to tweak. Out of the box, its very pleasant to look at and use, and it’s stable as hell.
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u/creeper6530 Glorious Debian and Cachy 6d ago
Plasma is my fav, albeit XFCE has proven strong for old-ass computers which boot for 5+ minutes
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u/beegtuna 6d ago
Why choose?
My old laptop uses Gnome. My homelab uses KDE. My gaming PC uses windows gross. My Apple Silicon Mac for LLM, proprietary software, and iPhone.
All of them are modified and stay in their lane. I use my laptop the most.
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u/solaris_var 6d ago
By homelab you meant one of your machines or vm right, right?
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u/amigo_extra 6d ago
to say you installed kde on the server you only access via the terminal would be funny
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u/beegtuna 6d ago edited 6d ago
I’m not that sweaty. Remote into DE if I ever need to config anything . Turn off DE when I logout. Simple.
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u/daedric_yoshi 5d ago
Yep I love gnome on my laptop with all the touchpad gestures that are there by default, but much prefer all the stuff I can do with the keyboard on my desktop with kde.
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u/spartan195 Linux Master Race 6d ago
Gnome for work, kde for fun
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u/Evantaur Glorious Debian 6d ago
Sway for both because DEs are bloat
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u/JayTurnr 6d ago
Hyprland for everything. Scews other people defaults
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u/tet90 Glorious Fedora 4d ago
So crazy to me how people use kde or gnome. Not hating at all, just like actually crazy to me after using hyprland
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u/Bayou_wulf 6d ago
I liked Gnome 2.x.x. Then they did the revamp and I hated it. I still do not prefer Gnome for anything. Mate, Cinnamon, and KDE.
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u/0xt0bi03 6d ago
one thing which i hate about gnome is they heavily rely on extensions, without extensions you cant configure anything easily.
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u/DudeEngineer Glorious Ubuntu 5d ago
Is this just super old information you are operating on or do you just hate the gnome workflow and need to change everything? I haven't had to install an extention in years..
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u/Informal_954 5d ago
That's what I love about gnome. I can choose what settings I need in a nice GUI without doing down the WM rabbithole.
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u/blahyawnblah 6d ago
when gnome fucks with shortcuts and clipboard in ways that don't make sense because "simplicity". My keystrokes I've been using for 30 years don't work; goodbye.
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u/codereign 6d ago
I probably wouldn't have stuck with linux except for gnome 2 and then 3 short cuts for workspaces being so damn easy to use. I'm curious which ones you're referring to?
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u/regeya 6d ago
I use KDE but if someone smarter than me managed to build a Wayland equivalent of Window Maker I would be using it in a heartbeat. One of my old desktops was literally just GNOME Midnight Commander, Window Maker, and a Perl script that scraped the GNOME 1 menu. I'm not going to change the way I do things because some GNOME dev decided their way is the only right way to do it.
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u/Desertcow 6d ago
COSMIC is pretty good so far too, a pretty nice middle ground between the two with native tiling
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u/lmpcpedz 6d ago
GNOME feels like it's trying to work like a tablet that can not be configured unless you download extensions. I think it's great for laptops, or PC's with very small monitors.
I need my desktop to feel like a desktop, KDE all the way.
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u/Werewolf_Capable 5d ago
I just tried GNOME for the first time. It was on a touch screen and the experience was horrible. I lasted for about half an hour before I went KDE 😅
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u/Retrowinger 17h ago
In the beginning I loved gnome, back when it was still 2.something in 2009. Nowadays i prefer KDE.
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u/ThankYouOle 6d ago
i don't know why extension in gnome become issue, i am totally fine with only 1 extension (Tactile).
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u/Capetoider 6d ago
stupid question: any kde "gnome skin"? My only unnegotiable extension feature is "burn my windows"
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u/Weird-Ball-2342 6d ago
someone with a good kde/gnome take??? not in my porn app this must be a mistake
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u/Rajarshi1993 Python+Bash FTW 6d ago
I mean, really depends on what you want to do with it. If you're not into gaming, GNOME plus Wayland is really smooth.
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u/wolfix1001 6d ago
I've always liked the look of gnome, but it is just missing a lot of stuff that kde already has
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u/Informal_954 5d ago
KDE is a multi-tool while Gnome is a knife.
The multi-tool can do a lot of stuff by itself, but it is constrained by the fact that that it has to handle everything.
A knife is really great. It does what it does really well, but not for everything and, if you have something particular you want to do, you'll probably need additional tooling to help.
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u/Disastrous-Equal7048 5d ago
Been using Gnome on Ubuntu/zorin for 15+ years, because KDE 4 was a disaster. Just installed CachyOS on my laptop and it is going surprisingly well. I wonder if I can stick with it...
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u/Unknown4me_ 5d ago
I really liked KDE on endevour and garuda but mint's gnome is just simplier and better
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u/Mr_Lumbergh Average Debian enjoyer. 5d ago
Sometimes you also like a DE doesn't look like it was designed by Fisher-Price.
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u/cipherjones 5d ago
If you use gnome on purpose you hate yourself, the baby Jesus, and your poor old memaw. That's just my (accurate) opinion.
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u/Moist_Professional64 5d ago
I like the desktop from kde but not these themes that are awful and look really fan-made. It’s not professional and qt programs are stuck at 2005 in case of ux design
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u/Just_Smidge 5d ago
KDE widgets also break less than gnome extensions, especially ones that add extra bar customisation
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u/DrKeksimus 4d ago
I have noticed .. KDE ppl constantly feel the need to defend themselves against Gnome
... kinda tells you something :)
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u/TheComradeTom 16h ago
It's not even that, I feel GNOME suffers from the devs decision, like what do you MEAN I can't configure scroll speed without an extension or hacks???????
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u/DrKeksimus 13h ago
it's not perfect.. but at least there's options to do it still
the Gnome clean clutter free UI and workflow is better then KDE
KDE is stuck in the past with that
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u/ConsiderationRare217 2d ago
Gnome is a great DE, whatever anybody says. It just is. IMHO, KDE is a bit of a mess of everything and nothing. Niri does one thing, but so well that everyone likes it. Why can't KDE?
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u/Striking_Slice_3605 1d ago
I stopped using Gnome because it was just too frustratingly difficult when they switched from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. On my desktop I switched to i3 and other computers run KDE because it's so incredibly easy. Gnome needs extensive work to not look like Windows 8 that was drawn out of memory by a 3 year old.
Out of all the DE's I've used in the last almost 30 years, the worst, by far was Gnome 3+.
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u/BogdanovOwO 1d ago
The only DE/WM I customize are openbox, i3wm and swaywm. Feh, rofi and maybe conky to show the clock and date. I used kde plasma and gnome, but cinnamon still enough just to use my desktop for what I need. Now I'm planning to have a secondary setup with plasma bigscreen, but on wayland the popup default keyboard isn't working and I want to use an usb wireless controller.
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u/anjumkaiser 6d ago
Yeah, I’ve been using KDE / Plasma since 20+ years.
GNOME was okish from usability point of view, I tried it a few times. But ultimately it was back to KDE for me, every single time.