• BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world
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    6 days ago

    If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
    If KDE ran a restaurant, if you shake the menu it’ll grow exponentially in size until it fills the restaurant.

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          Which makes sense. If each day you offer one choice you can make that one really good.

          But for someone who doesn’t like that specific food it doesn’t work. They’d prefer having different options.

          Kind of similar with gnome and KDE.

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            3 days ago

            The difference is, most people go to a restaurant to eat food, so the restaurant can get really good at making food that humans eat.

            People use a computer system to do all kinds of things. It is a lot harder to make one choice that will please everybody.

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        5 days ago

        Yes, and 99.9% of the meals you eat in your life will not be there. Because it is either prohibitively expensive and elitist gourmet BS. Or it is trivially easy to offer some choice when it is not elitist gourmet BS.

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          Even at a more mundane restaurant, only having one meal for each course to worry about drastically simplifies life for the entire back line, plus it makes life easier for the chef or whoever does the ordering as well.

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            5 days ago

            Even low fixed price day-menu restaurants in my town offer some basic choice or variation. People have food limitations and preferences.

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              I’ve been to a restaurant in Korea where you pay per person and they just serve you one main dish (you have no choice) and like 8 unlimited side dishes

              It was about $5 and you had a choice of topping up or not. It was great, actually

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                Cool, having choices is great, like you get to choose the side dishes and the toppings. That sounds awesome.

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              So then don’t go to a prix fixe restaurant or check the menu beforehand. There’s no need to be this bitchy about it.

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                But I do go there. And when I tell them I don’t eat mayonnaise due to health concers they understand and offer an accommodation. The waiter most definitely doesn’t berate me or scuff at me. Nor do they refuse my patronage.

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      If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.

      And if you want to add salt and pepper to your meal, there’s a convenient store across the street that sells salt and pepper shakers. No, the Gnome restaurant will not be providing them.

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        I’m a GNOME user and extensions are pretty easy to install. I use the wiggly extension for the mouse shake to grow thing, but unfortunately it has a maximum size of 256 which is plenty big enough to find it but you can’t shake it forever until it grows bigger than the screen. GNOME 0 KDE 1 🥲

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          People hate on Gnome but I think it’s actually great UI. Lots of hardcore Linux users shit on the windows UI but insist that Windows 7 UI clones are somehow peak UX. Gnome is more similar to Mac, but I find even easier to use. The super key is money on Gnome.

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            Yeah I tried KDE for a while, people talked about how customisable it is that you can do anything. But I never found a way to recreate that super key experience.

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          And those extensions are easily borked due to some random update. Because reasons. Been there done that. Still waiting for my “Gnome Borked My Favorite Extension” tee shirt.

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        4 days ago

        Are you implying GNOME is the ableist desktop environment? It might be even though it has lots of accessibility features.

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          Implication or not. GNOME is hit or miss with accessibility features. They’ve done some stuff, but they could still do more at no particular greater cost to them other than a shift in attitude. Which…you know… GNOME.