Quite enjoying Ubuntu Budgie. Seems to be a little lighter than stock Ubuntu and with fewer issues? I don't know. I did a full install instead of upgrading in place. Luckily the laptop doesn't hold a lot of files.
I have settled in nicely to Plasma for my work machine. The project has matured a LOT in the last couple of years, and I can't help but shake my imaginary rhetorical pom-poms at their success.
On my home machine, it's almost always tiling window managers. I just love the clean, pseudo sci-fi look and incredible efficiency.
so I've been using vanilla #ubuntu on my #rpi5 for the last couple of days, I gotta say, that desktop environment is really nice. Still prefer something light like #lxqt plus #i3, but I could start recommending vanilla ubuntu to normies again
Well, it must be a KDE, Budgie, Lxqt, or Cinnamon issue, you should install Gnome."
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Gnome is not the be all, above all, to fix all. But their user base is so overbearing and sometimes toxic, that as soon as they learn someone is not using Gnome, they point to that as the possible cause.
I'm not joking, by the way, they'll even claim a 3rd party web issue on not using Gnome. 🙄
My general issue with Gnome is I cannot always find the apps I want to use. They are not always viewable on the Windows 8-like menu.
"But... but... You can search for it."
That works some of the time, but not all the time. And you are also assuming I can recall exactly what the name of the app is too, and how it is spelled, because not all the apps use English titles.
Give me a nicely organized menu like the likes of Cinnamon, KDE, or LXQT, for example.
Seems to work fine with LXQT, couldn't get enlightenment to work, apparently the current version in pkgsrc is rather old as well.
So I'll run this for now and have a second laptop just in case with #NetBSD#BSD#Linux#OpenSource#LXQT
Finally consolidated my notes on things I've done to get the #PineTab2 working (mostly) the way I want it to. Some gathered from the forums, some that I noticed and/or figured out myself.
Woo, new adventure today. I got a wild hair, and decided to try and package a workable LXQt-Wayland for openSUSE, using labwc as the compositor. So far I can get the compositor to start? So that's progress, I suppose. Using the work done at https://github.com/stefonarch/LXQt-Wayland-files to see if I can't get something working....
O #LXQT é bem simples, mas o computador antigo está voando com o #LUbuntu. E olha que ele nem foi instalado, está rodando na pendrive. Parece ser uma opção interessante.
Woo, new adventure today. I got a wild hair, and decided to try and package a workable LXQt-Wayland for openSUSE, using labwc as the compositor. So far I can get the compositor to start? So that's progress, I suppose. Using the work done at https://github.com/stefonarch/LXQt-Wayland-files to see if I can't get something working.
A neighbor told me how much they dislike their computer. Asked them all sorts of questions on exactly what they use their computer for. Realized their needs were so basic that all they needed was a working web browser.
Backed up all the photos and documents.
Formated their computer and installed Debian with a Lxqt desktop. Added the deb-multimedia.org repo for their non-frer media codecs. Then installed both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird
Gnome has advanced much since I last seriously used it. - I can see some of the appeal.
I still prefer KDE and LXQT, but there is definitely 1 feature I would like to back port into my other desktop user interfaces.
When you need to enter your administrative password (sudo), Gnome makes that window front and center, while graying out the rest of the screen, serving as an overlay.
LXQt 2.0 : tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur votre nouvel environnement de bureau Linux.
LXQt reste un excellent choix pour les utilisateurs qui recherchent un environnement de bureau léger, rapide, personnalisable et compatible avec la plupart des distributions Linux.
An Unabashed Geek at that. As much as I like the way Apple looks and feels, I detest that you are locked into it. The same goes for Windoze.
With GNU/Linux you have multiple #Desktops. #Gnome is probably the most popular (but please for Gawd's sakes don't quote me). Then there's #KDE (which makes me think of Windoze). Then #Mate, #Cinnamon, #Budgie, #LXQt, #Deepin. These are just a few. Each has it's own pros and cons (LXQt is extremely light on resources but not very customisable). Deepin has incredible graphics and animations, but is extremely resource hungry. Mate uses Gnome 2 (because the author hated Gnome 3). etc etc etc...
Initial poking at putting together an LXQt-Wayland desktop for openSUSE (mastodon.naturalorder.me)
Woo, new adventure today. I got a wild hair, and decided to try and package a workable LXQt-Wayland for openSUSE, using labwc as the compositor. So far I can get the compositor to start? So that's progress, I suppose. Using the work done at https://github.com/stefonarch/LXQt-Wayland-files to see if I can't get something working....