boredsquirrel (he)Opinion: GNOME vs. macOS user experience
Wtf why are people downvoting this.
ZeroHorasome people hate gnome
AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetSome people hate life.
KDE echo chamber
I use KDE but GNOME is cool too lol.
Btw it is pronounced with a G.
I also use KDE because it’s better for gaming. But I love GNOME’s UX/UI. I wish I could go back.
Checkout some videos by Michael Horn, GNOME 46 is actually pretty good for gaming.
XNXIn what ways is it better for gaming?
macnielThe Gamecontroller calibration and test all is pretty nifty in KDE. Something like that is dearly missing on GNOME.
bigmclargehugeI’m on KDE and use jstest-gtk. Really light handy tool for testing and calibration. Antimicrox also works great for rebinding controllers.
RedevenSame, only reasons I had to move to KDE were, GNOME crashes when both my monitors are off (so, every night when I go to sleep), and tray icons are terrible (as GNOME intentionally doesn’t support them), the extensions are all very lacking in features compared to the Windows tray (kde somewhat matches almost everything except being able to reorder the icons).
The ArcMenu extension is by far the start menu I’ve liked the most out of all options on linux, and it saddens me that there’s no KDE plasmoid/widget variant
You will never make me pronounce the G. Never!
youmaynotknowOh, this is getting dangerous now.
tsonfeirGIF has a hard G, unlike gNOME. 🔪
Pronounced “Jif”?
jNOME ;)
BlizzardWait, you don’t pronounce the G? So it’s like… “NOM-NOM-NOM”?
LOL. Yes, but add an E at the end. Like this::
Thats only in english. In german it is Gnom and you pronounce the Gn correctly.
I prefer KDE for desktops, but gnome for laptops. However I’ve been using gnome on my desktop for a while now. With some minor customizations it’s fine.
“gee-nome”? Got it!
Captain AggravatedIt’s pronounced “juh-know-may.”
Only if you have a Klingon accent.
It’s a Klingon tea-like beverage. A warrior’s drink!
Ah, beer, yes!
like in a-gn-ostic ?
Gonna-nome?
Agonnanostic
Or as english people would say DE
Like Genome? Or Guh-nome?
Hahaha no like GNOME
Genome
That’s so cursed.
Possibly linuxJust no
m.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/gnu.html
Halmafelix pronounces Gnu (the animal) which is just the same as GNOME.
G-N-O-M-E
Its gnome
some people need to grow up lol
FizzBIG kDE is suppressing this post.
I use Plasma 6 myself and it is pretty awesome. But GNOME is also cool
The big shadowy kabal of would-be konquerors…
As someone who had to help coworkers with Windows, Mac and Linux problems one of the main problems of macOS is the fact that you have to use the clumsy GUI for so many things and that the Unix-like underpinnings are badly maintained and outdated so many systems have several versions of the same tool installed in various locations (OS-, Homebrew-, MacPorts- or whatever other package manager of the day versions).
Mac OS isn’t really usable for most people
And Linux is?
I want you to tell grandma how to update her video driver. Over the phone.
Buy your grandma a tablet or Chromebook
Only if you hate her.
Regardless of OS, I wouldn’t.
RetiringWhy would grandma want to do that? I have set up computers for tech illiterate people with Linux quite successfully. You just tell them: „if it wants your password, you did something wrong. Never enter your password, unless you know exactly why“ Set and forget.
Best suggestion ever 🤣🤣
Watch out if they have fingerprint login. Ubuntu, at least, doesn’t unlock the user’s keyring if they log in by fingerprint, and are quickly presented with a password prompt to unlock the keyring
Steps with Bazzite:
Atomic/Immutables are nice eh?
Have an update that completely breaks everything on your system? Just revert to the previous image and it’s no problem.
These immutable distros have so much potential. Especially for the tech illiterate. I really encourage anyone who hasn’t yet to give them a shot.
Of course they aren’t for everybody, as it makes it far harder to make system-level changes on the local system.
I wouldn’t have to if she were using Pop!_OS. It’s completely self maintaining. Next time she turns it on it’ll install any pending updates.
SchorschI have been using Linux since 2007. I have never had to update video drivers manually.
Sure, I don’t do gaming. But neither do most grandmothers.
My mother used Kubuntu for the last two decades of her life, and she was a great-grandmother.
Easy: “grandma, click update on the pop-up. Now restart. Done. What are you cooking for dinner tonight?”
Mark Gjøl@HollandJim @possiblylinux127 I had my mom running Linux. The biggest issues came from her expecting to having to install drivers and stuff when attaching a printer. " How do I make it work?" It just does. Linux issues only appeared because Windows is difficult.
It’s quite amazing you’ve picked that example. I just didn’t remember some people had to mess with video drivers. Last time I’ve done it was probably a decade ago, on Windows.
I get your point but truth be told I never expected any family member to update their own stuff. If they want my help I take away their admin rights and do everything myself, remotely when needed. And Linux is much easier to deal with than Windows.