catastrophicblues

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cinnamon absolutely is fantastic, and I 100% agree that it gets out of the way really well.

I'm curious what you needed to do that GNOME was fighting you. I'm not invalidating it, I'm genuinely just curious, since I haven't used a Linux system for personal/work use for about 5 years now, so my ideas of GNOME/KDE/etc. are almost certainly dated. To clarify: vanilla GNOME is kind of awful, and I've always wondered if anyone genuinely uses it stock while also being aware that extensions exist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Gnome devs want to decide what is best for you

Rebuttal: I’m extremely fickle, so someone else making choices for me is what I need. In KDE I ~~spent~~ wasted days customizing and just gave up in the end. It’s the same idea as using prettier instead of using your own lint rules: you stop wasting time and just do the thing you’re there to do.

In general, for configs (linting, neovim, etc), I prefer taking something really good and tweaking the parts I dislike—which is the model GNOME uses. Probabilistically, it’s exponentially likely that your preferences are only a little bit away from someone else—just use their thing and spend 15 minutes tweaking them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

A majority? I mean use something else if you like them better, no need to shit on GNOME

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I honestly like the vertical integration, but I can see why Linux folks would be annoyed. Honestly GNOME fits my workflow perfectly after a few extensions (mainly Dash to Dock). I’m super fickle, so its rigidity helps

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah there’s only so many actually open-ended questions you can ask without being repetitive, while also on relatively limited users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You mean omega, not theta

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Surely you could implement this via a sorting algorithm? If you can prove the distance function is a metric and both lists contains elements from the same space under that metric, isn’t the answer to sort both?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I’m just surprised people still use it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about for personal use? I’m in the market for a relatively high end machine around $2k, but build quality is pretty high up on my priorities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Forget psychotherapy, it can barely understand anything:

> Hello, I am Eliza. I'll be your therapist today. 
* Hello! How are you?
> Would you prefer if I were not ? 
* Not what?
> Have you asked such questions before? 
* No
> You are being a bit negative and that won't help us move forward. 
* What are you smoking?
> Perhaps in your fantasies I am smoking?
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
> Hello, I am Eliza. I'll be your therapist today. 
* Hello! How are you?
> Would you prefer if I were not ? 
* Not what?
> Have you asked such questions before? 
* No
> You are being a bit negative and that won't help us move forward. 
* What are you smoking?
> Perhaps in your fantasies I am smoking?

Yeah, it took me one message lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I remember a guy who tied his baby’s rocker to the drive and wrote code to open and close the CD drive repeatedly lol. Fun times.

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