Gregory's ServerKDE Plasma is great. GNOME is awesome. Window managers are wonderful. Everything has quirks but I love all these options we have. I can't wait to see where we take them.
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 @vkc When it comes to the DEs / WMs / Wayland compositors themselves, I agree. Unfortunately, some projects have very rude developers working for them, and those people end up ruining it for others like me. @cameronbosch @vkc problem with that, for me, is that every project seems to have "that one". Thereby I can't use anything. I jist decided to choose the product and not a person (unless it's a reallllly bad person ofcourse).  @supernov @cameronbosch @vkc Unless the unwanted party has their hands on the UI/UX most of the time, all is usable to me. I found frontend to be a face of any project that only benefits users under such scrutiny. The next on the list would probably be an API, as it's a dev user land, and if they can't find the common ground with the prominent contributors it'll soon be nobody's land. @cameronbosch @vkc as a consumer using open-source for free (mostly, except few donations), I don't care at all, whether the developer(s) is rude or not. If the developer(s) does the good job producing useful software for people, it's what counts the most. Of course, nice is better. But value over niceness. And, don't forget it's often charitable act of those developers... Unless one is sponsoring them, there's zero right for acting entitled about developer's time and attention. @cameronbosch @vkc well, that's beyond rude. More like hostile or harmful. And, one can be nice, but still hostile and harmful, and making decisions that hurt other projects. @vkc I think a Linux Zodiac would be handy. We can have a KDE year and say 'Well Fediverse and Open Source Community, let's focus on KDE', and all our collective minds would be working on the same thing, like a huge living organism It's the Linux philosophy, 'Do ONE thing and do it well'  @jamespthomas Pick a distro and go! So much of the "Stop using X use Y instead" stuff is algorithmically-driven nonsense, so I stay out of the habit of making straight recommendations. Personally, I use Debian on most of my machines, and the installer lets you choose between GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, XFCE, and probably a few others I'm not mentioning. I personally like KDE Plasma out of that group but only because it's very customizable (perhaps to a fault).  @vkc The #linux virtual console is wonderful too. I did for a while (that was over a decade ago) work mostly from these. With framebuffer and fbi, I could even view images. I guess it went well because I was doing most stuff from inside #Emacs. (Some of this was on a laptop where, unlike XFree86, XOrg couldn't use the full/"native" video mode, I don't recall why. But the framebuffer console would use the full screen area.) @all The wonderful thing about Linux is that you can choose your own graphical user interface.
  @vkc I want to love KDE Plasma... But the level of quirks often ends up with me just giving up on it. Maybe I'm just "doing it wrong". For myself, I use Openbox, for others I tend to use XFCE4. |
@vkc 100% this!!
Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, but in the end its personal preference :)