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  • ProtonBadger@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlFavourite DE
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, I am comfortable with most DE’s, I’m flexible but I prefer KDE+Wayland.

    Dolphin is poorly threaded though. For example: If I drag a large file from a network share to the desktop I can not drag another one to the desktop until the first copy have completed. If I connect my VPN or just an away-from-home wifi, Dolphin freezes, probably because it can’t find the local SMB connections in the “Remotes” group.

    I’m also watching COSMIC, it has a very well thought out architecture though I suspect the first version will be too simplistic in terms of features - for example vs Dolphin.



  • Yeah also I think we should be careful about calling anything we find annoying Enshittification, otherwise we’ll dilute the concept and it loses all meaning. I see this happening with hyperbole all the time, for example one of the strongest words in the dictionary “hate” have almost no meaning as people use it for even the mildest dislikes instead of utilizing a richer vocabulary. Let’s reserve Enshittification for Xitter and friends.






  • I didn’t downvote but for a lot of the time the core devs were mostly 1-2 ppl working some evenings because they have dayjobs/lives. They released many updates to 2.10, and they’re often feature releases not just bugfix releases. At the same time they almost completely rewrote the backend to use a new graphics library GEGL, which they also wrote from scratch. As for GIMP 3 they have also redone a lot under the hood to allow for easier development of new features moving forward and custom old GTK widgets updating to GTK3 required rearchitecturing as they work fundamentally differently from modern GTK3/4 versions.

    So that’s why I don’t joke, there’s also nothing to forgive. Let’s hope that GIMP 3 will get more interest from devs with its more modern and capable architecture.










  • There are other distros with the same points, they’re not unique, save for the wiki. A lot of users of other distros refer to the Arch wiki. The AUR is much celebrated but I personally found it annoying having to carefully vet every package and having moved to another distro I don’t miss it.

    I think the main reason to choose Arch is it’s for tinkerers/hobbyists. Its community is very enthusiastic which is always nice, though many can become a bit obnoxious on forums.