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Spoiler: GNOME wins

Btw their GNOME Theme manager is here

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wtf why are people downvoting this.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 months ago

some people hate gnome

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

BIG kDE is suppressing this post.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

The big shadowy kabal of would-be konquerors...

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I use Plasma 6 myself and it is pretty awesome. But GNOME (which is btw pronounced as in a-gn-ostic) is also cool

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

some people need to grow up lol

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

Gnome’s Nautilus is a long way away from being Finder. It certainly trying very hard, and there are some things I like about Nautilus more than I like about Finder, but Finder has a lot of polish that is missing from Nautilus.

That said, I look forward to The development of Nautilus and all of the improvements that will bring.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Finder? Polished? Even compared to Windows Explorer, Finder is terrible.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mac OS isn't really usable for most people

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

KDE is okay out of the box, there are like 5 things I normally change from the defaults. It has tons of powerful apps (unlike GNOME?) Like KDENLive, Kate, etc.

GNOME on the other hand has tons of circle apps, with GIMP and Inkscape being the big players.

[–] localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (8 children)

KDE connect made communicating with the couple people I know who still use SMS bearable

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 6 points 6 months ago

Gsconnect just works for me

[–] heleos@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

You can use gconnect on gnome

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[–] exanime@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

MacOS is like taking an athlete (Linux), dressing it up as a K-pop band member and tying it to a post so they can only move in a specific way and sing the same song.

Why would anyone want that when you can have the pure, raw performance and stamina of the athele and make with them whatever you'd like?

[–] gigatexal@mastodon.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@exanime @boredsquirrel ehh macOS has really polished software. It can also run a lot of the open source software Linux gets. Media seems better on it. Rogue Amoeba makes some legit stuff. But it’s more or less tied to the hardware. If it were open I’d run Linux on it and im hoping Asahi gets us there. macOS also a bit more user friendly focused. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[–] pukeko@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm writing this from an M2 Air running NixOS via the Asahi bootloader installer and it's an absolute delight. There are a few missing packages for the architecture, but surprisingly few. Everything works fine, except the fingerprint reader. (Having said all that, I like macos just fine.)

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[–] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Remember if you got harassed with macos hate comments.
Apple is a multimillion corpo and you don't have to defend any.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Hahaha this. If you are paying them, this is not a community.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How can people claim Gnome isn't trying to copy the Mac UI? If he didn't say mac at all during the video, I'd think this is some Chinese desktop environment being compared with Gnome.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I asked that once and it is pretty different.

  1. GNOME didnt look like that all the time. I dont know when but they went from bottom panel to top panel to left side panel to this layout.
  2. The top bar is used differently. Workspace indicator, but no global menu (which makes no sense) or app menu. Extensions can make it pretty much the same
  3. The dock is hidden and forces the workflow with workspaces. I dont think thats a crazy feature and dash to dock makes it equal again
  4. The window buttons are different
  5. The top bars are thicker etc.

Some settings are different, the tiling works better but yeah it is too similar.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.one 3 points 6 months ago

If anything to me gnome always seemed like some weird mix between macos, android, and chrome OS. That might be the material style theming though.

[–] Sina 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Left side panel was only ever Ubuntu only, no?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

No, last Tails I used

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[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Because it's very different? The bar defaulting to the top is the main similarity.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The entire video reveals how similar they are. Gnome is just Mac's UI and tools with a linuxy feel. Gnome devs even have the same ideology as Malus "We know best".

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[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Okay... I don't agree and I think it's very objectively obvious that there are huge differences in the UX and design philosophy.

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[–] Railison@aussie.zone 5 points 6 months ago

There are some gaps in this video owing to the guy not knowing some different keyboard shortcuts in macOS and just assuming they don’t exist.

I’d say macOS is still more consistent than Linux but it certainly peaked in Snow Leopard.

[–] rolo@infosec.pub 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ok gnome sucks a lot gnome doesn‘t prodoce errors - it is an error, a very ugly error. i‘m not a fanboy, i use sytems thts works -bsd,macos,debian,alpin but i hate gnome. I destroy every computer with a Gnome interface that I get my hands on in no time. But that's what I like about Gnome - destroy everything and go away.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

Hate bate the home wesktop

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Both are too similar and both suck :/

I mean, I do not want a copie of a closed sourced GUI where everything is behind some obscure hidden configuration.... I often had that strange feeling of "why can't I do that?" For simple basic things.

GNOME and MacOS both give me the same feeling of closed DE where you're not in control over basic functionalities :/.

I have a Mac and GNOME on my debian desktop, I hate both, but luckily I can change my DE on linux so I would say MacOS sucks way more ^^.

Just my 50cent.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

GNOME settings are not obscured? And if you want more customization you can use tweaks, which, it's true, don't have centralized settings, but you have the power -- on MacOS you'd be paying $5-10 for every tweak.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

I agree on that feeling. Even though GNOME is very customizable but the barrier to that is big.

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I solved that problem by using a tiling window manager on every OS. Configure it to use your favorite shortcuts (from i3wm in this case), put super + spacebar as the whatever launcher you like and tadaaaa!

Everything feels more or less the same.

I do that since I became addicted to i3wm years ago. The worst part is just remembering the keywords to type in the launcher according to what OS you’re on.

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