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...
I now have (mostly) functional popovers on Wayland for @buddiesofbudgie#Budgie. Still some work to be done on unfocusing, but positioning and keyboard focus actually work!
Thanks to GtkPopover working much more nicely under Wayland, in additional to some foundational changes I made to how we define the positioning of popovers relative to the widget invoking them, I will be able to do some much desired cleaning of our old popover code (with the goal of maintaining API stability).
The (now) old code served us well for many years and will be nice to wave it goodbye.
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Today In Metal History 🤘 May 17th, 2024 🤘 PAUL DI'ANNO, DIO, BUDGIE JUDAS PRIEST, VINNIE VINCENT INVASION
Talent We Lost R.I.P. Bruce Earl Fairbairn (AC/DC, AEROSMITH, BON JOVI producer): 1949 - 1999 (aged 49) Heavy Birthdays 75th William Scott "Bill" Bruford (KING CRIMSON, YES) - 1949 69th Claude Schnell (DIO) - 1955 67th Audie Desbrow (GREAT...
Took the wilted canes from last night's ginger harvest, wove them into the bird's cages. They can dry there and become nutritious shred toys. Put a pinch of chickweed near each to entice them to explore (they LOVE chickweed, just like chickens). Now the room is ginger grass scented :). Bonus shot of Sunny eyeing the new green stuff with cautious curiosity.
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.
@Goldmaster The #Fedora#Budgie Atomic Desktop is the perfect Windows replacement for people who like the look and feel of #Windows but are over Windows.
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Today In Metal History 🤘 April 10th, 2024 🤘 EXODUS, RATT, BUDGIE, DEATH ANGEL, HELLYEAH, METAL CHURCH
TALENT WE LOST John Burke Shelley (BUDGIE) - 1950 - 2022 (aged 71) HEAVY BIRTHDAYS 59th Tom Hunting (EXODUS) - 1965 61st Warren Justin DeMartini (RATT) - 1963 52nd Sami Yli-Sirniö (KREATOR, WALTARI) - 1972 HEAVY RELEASES 46th JETHRO TULL's...
Nice Lemmy post shared in the @buddiesofbudgie Matrix from someone trying out #Fedora#Budgie Atomic (cough* not Fedora Atomic Budgie cough*), their experience with toolbox, and the rpm-ostree experience as a whole. 💯
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. 🙄
As I ordered a #laptop after years of struggle (#Asus TUF A16 from #2023), it's likely I will need a new #Linux#distro. Which apparently brings us to the #2024 Best General Use #OS#Competition! Please meet our contestants:
#Windows 11 – the most popular OS on market. But is it really good? Unlikely.
#LinuxMint Cinnamon Edge – in my experience the best by far, intuitive, just works and never gets in your way. But can it handle a laptop that's not even a year old?
If you're a longtime #Windows user who might want to give #Linux a try but you don't know where to begin and are worried it will all be too overwhelming for you, then I suggest #Fedora#Onyx. You'll get a very similar desktop experience via #Budgie with a very low maintenance Linux experience under the hood. And yes, you can game with it 😎.
@heurism I initially didn't switch to #Linux because I wanted to run Linux. I initially tried it out because #Windows finally annoyed me too much. I remember the first thing I did in Linux was created folders for "My Computer" and "My Documents" just so I had some kind of familiarity. People coming from Windows today will have a much more familiar experience with #Budgie.
Budgie 10.9 is a brand new release series for Budgie Desktop, introducing a redesigned Bluetooth applet, early porting efforts towards supporting Wayland, and adopting budgie-session for session management!